NAME

eBay::API::Simple::Shopping

SYNPOSIS

my $call = eBay::API::Simple::Shopping->new();
$call->execute( 'FindItemsAdvanced', { QueryKeywords => 'shoe' } );

if ( $call->has_error() ) {
   die "Call Failed:" . $call->errors_as_string();
}

# getters for the response DOM or Hash
my $dom  = $call->response_dom();
my $hash = $call->response_hash();

print $call->nodeContent( 'Timestamp' );
print $call->nodeContent( 'TotalItems' );

my @nodes = $dom->findnodes(
  '/FindItemsAdvancedResponse/SearchResult/ItemArray/Item'
);

foreach my $n ( @nodes ) {
  print $n->findvalue('Title/text()') . "\n";
}

new

Constructor for the Shopping API call

my $call = ebay::API::Simple::Shopping->new();
$call->execute( 'FindItems', { QueryKeywords => 'shoe' } );

my $call = ebay::API::Simple::Shopping->new( {
  siteid  => 0,         # custom site id 
  uri     => '/shopping',  # custom uri 
  appid   => 'myappid', # custom appid
  version => '518',     # custom version
  https   => 0,         # 0 or 1
} );

Defaults:

  siteid  = 0
  uri     = /shopping
  domain  = open.api.ebay.com
  version = 527
  https   = 0

  appid   = undef
  

ebay.ini

The constructor will fallback to the ebay.ini file to get any missing credentials. The following files will be checked, ./ebay.ini, ~/ebay.ini, /etc/ebay.ini which are in the order of precedence.

# your application key
ApplicationKey=LJKGHKLJGKJHG

execute( $verb, $call_data )

Calling this method will make build and execute the api request.

$verb      = call verb, i.e. FindItems 
$call_data = hashref of call_data that will be turned into xml.

$call->execute( 'FindItemsAdvanced', { QueryKeywords => 'shoe' } );

_get_request_body

This method supplies the request body for the Shopping API call

_get_request_headers

This method supplies the headers for the Shopping API call

_get_request_object

This method creates the request object and returns to the parent class

AUTHOR

Tim Keefer <tim@timkeefer.com>