NAME

dummyhandler


DESCRIPTION

Base module to inherit for all known handlers this thing is here mainly to be sure that all handlers have a common secured base of methods, not risking any bail out due to call to unkown funcs in the different handlers.


AUTHOR

  Bruno Böttcher <bboett at adlp dot org>


COPYRIGHT and LICENCE

 Copyright (c) 2002 Bruno Boettcher
 dummyHandler is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2
 of the License.
 This program 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 General Public License for more details.
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.


Methods of this class

initialize
initialize this object

nickchange
change the name of a listing

search
search through the list files needs to empty the the search hits results eventually need a clean up from size info in the filenames

elimitateoldservers
check for old fsesrvers and purge the infos about them returns the namearray of servernames that were purged

addFile
store the information about a fserver entry

troubleClose
the parsing ended in trouble, record it in the file

lastUpdate
return the date of the last update return a hash with the update value and eventual logging info

openNewList
clean up the record for a fileserver needs on server side $fs->{``ListDate''}=$curtime;

loadState
parse in a list of actual state for the requests and return a list of setted targets.

saveState
Save the actual state of the transfers or requested files

loadSelected
load preselected targets

saveSelected
save preselected targets

update
check in the last server activation date

setMaxCPS
update the maximum trasnferrate for a fserver

checkNick
check if we are playing with an alias return the original nick as a default...

checkIn
postprocess after resetting a servor to default status

patternrevision
switch patter active chars to perlish and non greedy patterns


THANKS

I. Wronsky came up with this infernal concept and kludged the first 1.x versions together. This gave B. Boettcher the incentive to begin this work, the famous itching paradigm!


SEE ALSO

http://www.geocities.com/iwronsky/