Apache HTTP Server Request Library
Apache HTTP Server Request Library
Apache2::Upload - Methods for dealing with file uploads.
use Apache2::Upload;
$req = Apache2::Request->new($r);
$upload = $req->upload("foo");
$size = $upload->size;
# three methods to get at the upload's contents ... slurp, fh, io
$upload->slurp($slurp_data);
read $upload->fh, $fh_data, $size;
ok $slurp_data eq $fh_data;
my $io = $upload->io;
print while <$io>;
Apache2::Upload is a new module based on the original package included
in Apache2::Request 1.X. Users requiring the upload API must now
use Apache2::Upload, which adds the upload method to Apache2::Request.
Apache2::Upload is largely backwards-compatible with the original 1.X API.
See the PORTING from 1.X section below for a list of known issues.
This manpage documents the Apache2::Upload package.
$upload->name()
The name of the HTML form element which generated the upload.
$upload->filename()
The (client-side) filename as submitted in the HTML form. Note: some agents will submit the file's full pathname, while others may submit just the basename.
$upload->fh()
Creates filehandle reference to the upload's spooled tempfile, which contains the full contents of the upload.
$upload->io()
Creates a tied IO handle. This method is a more efficient version
of fh, but with io the handle ref returned is not seekable.
It is tied to an APR::Request::Brigade object, so you may use the
brigade API on the tied object if you want to manipulate the IO stream
(beyond simply reading from it).
The returned reference is actually an object which has read and
readline methods available. However these methods are just
syntactic sugar for the underlying READ and READLINE methods from
APR::Request::Brigade.
$io = $upload->io;
print while $io->read($_); # equivalent to: tied(*$io)->READ($_)
See READ and READLINE below for additional notes on their usage.
$upload->bb()
$upload->bb($set)
Get/set the APR::Brigade which represents the upload's contents.
$upload->size()
Returns the size of the upload in bytes.
$upload->info()
$upload->info($set)
Get/set the additional header information table for the
uploaded file.
Returns a hash reference tied to the APR::Table class.
An optional $table argument can be passed to reassign
the upload's internal (apr_table_t) info table to the one
$table represents.
my $info = $upload->info;
while (my($hdr_name, $hdr_value) = each %$info) {
# ...
}
# fetch upload's Content-Type header
my $type = $upload->info->{"Content-type"};
$upload->type()
Returns the MIME type of the given Apache2::Upload object.
my $type = $upload->type;
#same as
my $content_type = $upload->info->{"Content-Type"};
$content_type =~ s/;.*$//ms;
$upload->link()
To avoid recopying the upload's internal tempfile brigade on a *nix-like system, link will create a hard link to it:
my $upload = $req->upload('foo');
$upload->link("/path/to/newfile") or
die sprintf "link from '%s' failed: $!", $upload->tempname;
Typically the new name must lie on the same device and partition
as the brigade's tempfile. If this or any other reason prevents
the OS from linking the files, link() will instead
copy the temporary file to the specified location.
$upload->slurp($contents)
Reads the full contents of a file upload into the scalar argument. The return value is the length of the file.
my $size = $upload->slurp($contents);
$upload->tempname()
Provides the name of the spool file.
my $tempname = $upload->tempname;
This class is derived from APR::Brigade, providing additional
methods for TIEHANDLE, READ and READLINE. To be memory efficient,
these methods delete buckets from the brigade as soon as their
data is actually read, so you cannot seek on handles tied to
this class. Such handles have semantics similar to that of a
read-only socket.
APR::Request::Brigade->TIEHANDLE($bb)
Creates a copy of the bucket brigade represented by $bb, and
blesses that copy into the APR::Request::Brigade class. This
provides syntactic sugar for using perl's builtin read, readline,
and <> operations on handles tied to this package:
use Symbol;
$fh = gensym;
tie *$fh, "APR::Request:Brigade", $bb;
print while <$fh>;
$bb->READ($contents)
$bb->READ($contents, $length)
$bb->READ($contents, $length, $offset)
Reads data from the brigade $bb into $contents. When omitted
$length defaults to -1, which reads the first bucket into $contents.
A positive $length will read in $length bytes, or the remainder of the
brigade, whichever is greater. $offset represents the index in $context
to read the new data.
$bb->READLINE()
Returns the first line of data from the bride. Lines are terminated by
linefeeds (the '\012' character), but we may eventually use $/ instead.
$upload->next() is no longer available; please use the
APR::Request::Param::Table API when iterating over upload entries.
info($header_name) is replaced by info($set).
type() returns only the MIME-type portion of the Content-Type header.
the APR::Request::Param::Table manpage, the APR::Request::Error manpage, the Apache2::Request manpage, APR::Table(3)
Copyright 2003-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
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