NAME File::Dropbox - Convenient and fast Dropbox API abstraction SYNOPSIS use File::Dropbox; use Fcntl; # Application credentials my %app = ( oauth2 => 1, access_token => $access_token, ); my $dropbox = File::Dropbox->new(%app); # Open file for writing open $dropbox, '>', 'example' or die $!; while (<>) { # Upload data using 4MB chunks print $dropbox $_; } # Commit upload (optional, close will be called on reopen) close $dropbox or die $!; # Open for reading open $dropbox, '<', 'example' or die $!; # Download and print to STDOUT # Buffered, default buffer size is 4MB print while <$dropbox>; # Reset file position seek $dropbox, 0, Fcntl::SEEK_SET; # Get first character (unbuffered) say getc $dropbox; close $dropbox; DESCRIPTION "File::Dropbox" provides high-level Dropbox API abstraction based on Tie::Handle. Code required to get "access_token" and "access_secret" for signed OAuth 1.0 requests or "access_token" for OAuth 2.0 requests is not included in this module. To get "app_key" and "app_secret" you need to register your application with Dropbox. At this moment Dropbox API is not fully supported, "File::Dropbox" covers file read/write and directory listing methods. If you need full API support take look at WebService::Dropbox. "File::Dropbox" main purpose is not 100% API coverage, but simple and high-performance file operations. Due to API limitations and design you can not do read and write operations on one file at the same time. Therefore handle can be in read-only or write-only state, depending on last call to open. Supported functions for read-only state are: open, close, seek, tell, readline, read, sysread, getc, eof. For write-only state: open, close, syswrite, print, printf, say. All API requests are done using Furl module. For more accurate timeouts Net::DNS::Lite is used, as described in Furl::HTTP. Furl settings can be overriden using "furlopts". METHODS new my $dropbox = File::Dropbox->new( access_secret => $access_secret, access_token => $access_token, app_secret => $app_secret, app_key => $app_key, chunk => 8 * 1024 * 1024, root => 'dropbox', furlopts => { timeout => 20 } ); my $dropbox = File::Dropbox->new( access_token => $access_token, oauth2 => 1 ); Constructor, takes key-value pairs list access_secret OAuth 1.0 access secret access_token OAuth 1.0 access token or OAuth 2.0 access token app_secret OAuth 1.0 app secret app_key OAuth 1.0 app key oauth2 OAuth 2.0 switch, defaults to false. chunk Upload chunk size in bytes. Also buffer size for "readline". Optional. Defaults to 4MB. root Access type, "sandbox" for app-folder only access and "dropbox" for full access. furlopts Parameter hash, passed to Furl constructor directly. Default options timeout => 10, inet_aton => \&Net::DNS::Lite::inet_aton, ssl_opts => { SSL_verify_mode => SSL_VERIFY_PEER(), } FUNCTIONS All functions are not exported by default but can be exported on demand. use File::Dropbox qw{ contents metadata putfile }; First argument for all functions should be GLOB reference, returned by "new". contents Arguments: $dropbox [, $path] Function returns list of hashrefs representing directory content. Hash fields described in Dropbox API docs . $path defaults to "/". If there is unfinished chunked upload on handle, it will be commited. foreach my $file (contents($dropbox, '/data')) { next if $file->{'is_dir'}; say $file->{'path'}, ' - ', $file->{'bytes'}; } metadata Arguments: $dropbox Function returns stored metadata for read-only handle, closed write handle or after call to "contents" or "putfile". open $dropbox, '<', '/data/2013.dat' or die $!; my $meta = metadata($dropbox); if ($meta->{'bytes'} > 1024) { # Do something } putfile Arguments: $dropbox, $path, $data Function is useful for uploading small files (up to 150MB possible) in one request (at least two API requests required for chunked upload, used in open-write-close sequence). If there is unfinished chunked upload on handle, it will be commited. local $/; open my $data, '<', '2012.dat' or die $!; putfile($dropbox, '/data/2012.dat', <$data>) or die $!; say 'Uploaded ', metadata($dropbox)->{'bytes'}, ' bytes'; close $data; copyfile Arguments: $dropbox, $source, $target Function copies file or directory from one location to another. Metadata for copy can be accessed using "metadata" function. copyfile($dropbox, '/data/2012.dat', '/data/2012.dat.bak') or die $!; say 'Created backup with revision ', metadata($dropbox)->{'revision'}; movefile Arguments: $dropbox, $source, $target Function moves file or directory from one location to another. Metadata for moved file can be accessed using "metadata" function. movefile($dropbox, '/data/2012.dat', '/data/2012.dat.bak') or die $!; say 'Created backup with size ', metadata($dropbox)->{'size'}; deletefile Arguments: $dropbox, $path Function deletes file or folder at specified path. Metadata for deleted item is accessible via "metadata" function. deletefile($dropbox, '/data/2012.dat.bak') or die $!; say 'Deleted backup with last modification ', metadata($dropbox)->{'modification'}; createfolder Arguments: $dropbox, $path Function creates folder at specified path. Metadata for created folder is accessible via "metadata" function. createfolder($dropbox, '/data/backups') or die $!; say 'Created folder at path ', metadata($dropbox)->{'path'}; SEE ALSO Furl, Furl::HTTP, WebService::Dropbox, Dropbox API AUTHOR Alexander Nazarov COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2013-2016 Alexander Nazarov This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.