API:EPrints/Plugin/Export

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NAME

EPrints::Plugin::Export

METHODS

new

$plugin = EPrints::Plugin::Export->new( %params )

Creates a new Export plugin. In addition to those parameters defined by EPrints::Plugin:

• accept (default: [])

Array reference of object types this plugin can accept.

• advertise (default: true)

Boolean for whether to advertise this plugin to users.

• arguments (default: {})

Hash reference of supported arguments/default values.

• mimetype (default: undef)

The MIME type to set when outputting to an HTTP response.

• produce (default: returned value of sub mime_type)

Array reference of MIME types this plugin can output. By default includes application/x-eprints-export-XXX, where XXX is the case-insensitive id of the plugin.

• qs (default: 0.5)

Score used to determine which plugin to use, if all else is equal, where 0 is least likely and 1 is most likely.

• suffix (default: ".txt")

File name extension to use when outputting to file.

• visible (default: "all")

"staff" (staff only) or "all" (anyone).

initialise_fh

$plugin->initialise_fh( FH )

Initialise the file handle FH for writing. This may be used to manipulate the Perl IO layers in effect.

Defaults to setting the file handle to binary semantics.

byte_order_mark

$bom = $plugin->byte_order_mark

If writing a file the byte order mark will be written before any other content. This may be necessary to write plain-text Unicode-encoded files.

Defaults to empty string.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000-2011 University of Southampton.

This file is part of EPrints http://www.eprints.org/.

EPrints 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

EPrints 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 EPrints. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.