(retracted by #17444)

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / Net / NNTP.pm

diff --git a/lib/Net/NNTP.pm b/lib/Net/NNTP.pm
index 56c97b3..521ccf1 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Net/NNTP.pm
+++ b/lib/Net/NNTP.pm
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use Carp;
 use Time::Local;
 use Net::Config;
 
-$VERSION = "2.20"; # $Id: //depot/libnet/Net/NNTP.pm#13 $
+$VERSION = "2.21"; # $Id: //depot/libnet/Net/NNTP.pm#15 $
 @ISA     = qw(Net::Cmd IO::Socket::INET);
 
 sub new
@@ -116,6 +116,14 @@ sub article
     : undef;
 }
 
+sub articlefh {
+ @_ >= 1 && @_ <= 2 or croak 'usage: $nntp->articlefh( [ MSGID ] )';
+ my $nntp = shift;
+
+ return unless $nntp->_ARTICLE(@_);
+ return $nntp->tied_fh;
+}
+
 sub authinfo
 {
  @_ == 3 or croak 'usage: $nntp->authinfo( USER, PASS )';
@@ -147,6 +155,14 @@ sub body
     : undef;
 }
 
+sub bodyfh
+{
+ @_ >= 1 && @_ <= 2 or croak 'usage: $nntp->bodyfh( [ MSGID ] )';
+ my $nntp = shift;
+ return unless $nntp->_BODY(@_);
+ return $nntp->tied_fh;
+}
+
 sub head
 {
  @_ >= 1 && @_ <= 3 or croak 'usage: $nntp->head( [ MSGID ], [ FH ] )';
@@ -160,6 +176,14 @@ sub head
     : undef;
 }
 
+sub headfh
+{
+ @_ >= 1 && @_ <= 2 or croak 'usage: $nntp->headfh( [ MSGID ] )';
+ my $nntp = shift;
+ return unless $nntp->_HEAD(@_);
+ return $nntp->tied_fh;
+}
+
 sub nntpstat
 {
  @_ == 1 || @_ == 2 or croak 'usage: $nntp->nntpstat( [ MSGID ] )';
@@ -296,6 +320,12 @@ sub post
     : undef;
 }
 
+sub postfh {
+  my $nntp = shift;
+  return unless $nntp->_POST();
+  return $nntp->tied_fh;
+}
+
 sub quit
 {
  @_ == 1 or croak 'usage: $nntp->quit()';
@@ -743,6 +773,16 @@ Like C<article> but only fetches the body of the article.
 
 Like C<article> but only fetches the headers for the article.
 
+=item articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
+
+=item bodyfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
+
+=item headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
+
+These are similar to article(), body() and head(), but rather than
+returning the requested data directly, they return a tied filehandle
+from which to read the article.
+
 =item nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] )
 
 The C<nntpstat> command is similar to the C<article> command except that no
@@ -842,6 +882,15 @@ C<datasend> and C<dataend> methods from L<Net::Cmd>
 
 C<MESSAGE> can be either an array of lines or a reference to an array.
 
+=item postfh ()
+
+Post a new article to the news server using a tied filehandle.  If
+posting is allowed, this method will return a tied filehandle that you
+can print() the contents of the article to be posted.  You must
+explicitly close() the filehandle when you are finished posting the
+article, and the return value from the close() call will indicate
+whether the message was successfully posted.
+
 =item slave ()
 
 Tell the remote server that I am not a user client, but probably another
@@ -1016,7 +1065,7 @@ the beginning of the test string just inside the open square
 bracket.
 
 The final operation uses the backslash character to
-invalidate the special meaning of the a open square bracket C<[>,
+invalidate the special meaning of an open square bracket C<[>,
 the asterisk, backslash or the question mark. Two backslashes in
 sequence will result in the evaluation of the backslash as a
 character with no special meaning.
@@ -1064,6 +1113,6 @@ it under the same terms as Perl itself.
 
 =for html <hr>
 
-I<$Id: //depot/libnet/Net/NNTP.pm#13 $>
+I<$Id: //depot/libnet/Net/NNTP.pm#15 $>
 
 =cut