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Tasks of Sympa

Synopsis

  use Sympa::Task;
  
  $task = Sympa::Task->new($serialized, context => $list,
      model => 'remind', label => 'EXEC', date => 1234567890);
  
  $task = Sympa::Task->new(context => $list, model => 'remind');

Description

Methods

new ( $serialized, context => $that, model => $model, label => $label, date => $date )
new ( context => $that, model => $model, [ name => $name ], [ label => $label ], [ date => $date ] )

Constructor. Creates a new instance of Sympa::Task class.

The first style is usually used by task spool class (see also Sympa::Spool::Task): context, model, label and date are given by metadata (file name).

Parameters:

$serialized

Serialized content of task file in spool. If omitted (the second style above), appropriate task file is read, parsed and used for serialized content.

context => $that

Context of the task: List (instance of Sympa::List) or Site ('*').

model => $model

Task model.

name => $name

Selector of task. If omitted, value of parameter of context object that corresponds to task model is used; if parameter value was not valid, constructor returns undef.

label => $label

Label of task. If omitted, default label (in many cases, empty string) is used.

date => $date

Unix time. creation date of label. If omitted, current time.

Returns:

New instance of Sympa::Task class.

dup ( )

Copy constructor. Creates deep copy of instance.

lines ( )

Instance method. Gets an array of parsed information by each line of serialized content.

to_string ( )

Instance method. Gets serialized content of the task.

get_id ( )

Instasnce method. Gets unique identifier of instance.

Function

get_tasks ( $that, $model )

Function. Gets all possible tasks for particular context.

Parameters:

$that

Context. Instance of Sympa::List or '*'.

$model

Task model.

Returns:

An arrayref of possible tasks.

Attributes

{date}
{model}
{title}

TBD.

See Also

task_manager(8).

Sympa::Spool::Task.

History

Task module appeared on Sympa 5.2b.1. It was renamed to Sympa::Task on Sympa 6.2a.41.

It was rewritten and split into Sympa::Task and Sympa::Spool::Task on Sympa 6.2.37b.2.

Info

2023-07-22 sympa 6.2.72