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Valid file documents typically include the following fields:

• _id – a unique ID for this document, typically a BSON::OID object. Legacy GridFS files may store this value as a different type.
• length – the length of this stored file, in bytes
• chunkSize – the size, in bytes, of each full data chunk of this file.
• uploadDate – the date and time this file was added to GridFS, stored as a BSON datetime value and inflated per the bucket's bson_codec attribute.
• filename – the name of this stored file; this does not need to be unique
• metadata – any additional application-specific data
• md5 – DEPRECATED
• contentType – DEPRECATED
• aliases – DEPRECATED

fh

    my $fh = $downloadstream->fh;
    while ( <$fh> ) {
        say($_);
    }

Returns a new Perl file handle tied to this instance of DownloadStream that can be operated on with the built-in functions "read", "readline", "getc", "eof", "fileno" and "close".

Important notes:

Allowing one of these tied filehandles to fall out of scope will NOT cause close to be called. This is due to the way tied file handles are implemented in Perl. For close to be called implicitly, all tied filehandles and the original object must go out of scope.

Each file handle retrieved this way is tied back to the same object, so calling close on multiple tied file handles and/or the original object will have the same effect as calling close on the original object multiple times.

close

    $stream->close

Works like the builtin "close".

Important notes:

• Calling close will also cause any tied file handles created for the stream to also close.
• "close" will be automatically called when a stream object is destroyed.
• Calling "close" repeatedly will warn.

eof

    if ( $stream->eof() ) { ... }

Works like the builtin "eof".

fileno

    if ( $stream->fileno() ) { ... }

Works like the builtin "fileno", but it returns -1 if the stream is open and undef if closed.

getc

    $char = $stream->getc();

Works like the builtin "getc".

read

    $data = $stream->read($buf, $length, $offset)

Works like the builtin "read".

readline

    $line  = $stream->readline();
    @lines = $stream->readline();

Works like the builtin "readline".