NAME

Gnome2::VFS - (DEPRECATED) Perl interface to the 2.x series of the GNOME VFS library

SYNOPSIS

  use Gnome2::VFS;

  sub die_already {
    my ($action) = @_;
    die("An error occured while $action.\n");
  }

  die_already("initializing GNOME VFS") unless (Gnome2::VFS -> init());

  my $source = "http://www.perldoc.com/about.html";
  my ($result, $handle, $info);

  # Open a connection to Perldoc.
  ($result, $handle) = Gnome2::VFS -> open($source, "read");
  die_already("opening connection to '$source'")
    unless ($result eq "ok");

  # Get the file information.
  ($result, $info) = $handle -> get_file_info("default");
  die_already("retrieving information about '$source'")
    unless ($result eq "ok");

  # Read the content.
  my $bytes = $info -> { size };

  my $bytes_read = 0;
  my $buffer = "";

  do {
    my ($tmp_buffer, $tmp_bytes_read);

    ($result, $tmp_bytes_read, $tmp_buffer) =
      $handle -> read($bytes - $bytes_read);

    $buffer .= $tmp_buffer;
    $bytes_read += $tmp_bytes_read;
  } while ($result eq "ok" and $bytes_read < $bytes);

  die_already("reading $bytes bytes from '$source'")
    unless ($result eq "ok" && $bytes_read == $bytes);

  # Close the connection.
  $result = $handle -> close();
  die_already("closing connection to '$source'")
    unless ($result eq "ok");

  # Create and open the target.
  my $target = "/tmp/" . $info -> { name };
  my $uri = Gnome2::VFS::URI -> new($target);

  ($result, $handle) = $uri -> create("write", 1, 0644);
  die_already("creating '$target'") unless ($result eq "ok");

  # Write to it.
  my $bytes_written;

  ($result, $bytes_written) = $handle -> write($buffer, $bytes);
  die_already("writing $bytes bytes to '$target'")
    unless ($result eq "ok" && $bytes_written == $bytes);

  # Close the target.
  $result = $handle -> close();
  die_already("closing '$target'") unless ($result eq "ok");

  Gnome2::VFS -> shutdown();

ABSTRACT

DEPRECATED This module allows you to interface with the GNOME Virtual File System library. It provides the means to transparently access files on all kinds of filesystems.

DESCRIPTION

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

This module has been deprecated by the Gtk-Perl project. This means that the module will no longer be updated with security patches, bug fixes, or when changes are made in the Perl ABI. The Git repo for this module has been archived (made read-only), it will no longer possible to submit new commits to it. You are more than welcome to ask about this module on the Gtk-Perl mailing list, but our priorities going forward will be maintaining Gtk-Perl modules that are supported and maintained upstream; this module is neither.

Since this module is licensed under the LGPL v2, you may also fork this module, if you wish, but you will need to use a different name for it on CPAN, and the Gtk-Perl team requests that you use your own resources (mailing list, Git repos, bug trackers, etc.) to maintain your fork going forward.

• Perl URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/perl-gnome2-vfs

• Upstream URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-vfs

• Last upstream version: 2.24.4

• Last upstream release date: 2010-09-28

• Migration path for this module: Glib::IO

• Migration module URL: https://metacpan.org/pod/Glib::IO

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

Since this module tries to stick very closely to the C API, the documentation found at

  L<http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gnome-vfs-2.0/>

is the canonical reference.

In addition to that, there's also the automatically generated API documentation: Gnome2::VFS::index.

The mapping described in Gtk2::api also applies to this module.

To discuss this module, ask questions and flame/praise the authors, join gtk-perl-list@gnome.org at lists.gnome.org.

KNOWN BUGS

There are some memory leaks especially with respect to callbacks. This mainly affects GnomeVFSAsync as well as some parts of GnomeVFSXfer and GnomeVFSOps. GnomeVFSMime leaks some list data.

GnomeVFSAsync is also known to crash under certain conditions when there are many concurrent transfers.

SEE ALSO

Gnome2::VFS::index, Glib, Gtk2, Gtk2::api.

AUTHOR

Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch@web.de>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2003-2007 by the gtk2-perl team (see the file AUTHORS)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.