NAME

iTunes::Sid::Atom - Apple iTunes database component interface

SYNOPSIS

See iTunes::Sid documentation.

DESCRIPTION

This module represents a chunk of data in Apple iTunes sid* format database files.

METHODS

new

my $atm = iTunes::Sid::Atom( rbuf => \$buf, read_buffer_position => $position );

Create an atom object.  rbuf => \$buf is a named argument which is a 
reference to the memory buffer containing the atom.
read_buffer_position => $position is the offset in the buffer where the 
atom's start for reading is located.

isContainer

$atom->isContainer;

Overloaded for parent, to allow reading of atom types for container versus
non-container atoms during parsing.

isRootAtomType

$atom->isRootAtomType();

returns 1 if the atom is a root type, otherwise undef.

SEE ALSO

iTunes::Sid

AUTHOR

William Herrera ( wherrera@skylightview.com ).

SUPPORT

Questions, feature requests and bug reports should go to <wherrera@skylightview.com>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008 William Herrera. All rights reserved.  

This program is restricted use but free software; you can redistribute it 
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, BUT with the same 
additional restrictions seen in the COPYRIGHT section of B<iTunes::Sid>.