NAME

eBay::API::Simple::Merchandising - Support for eBay's Merchandising web service

DESCRIPTION

This class provides support for eBay's Merchandising web services.

See http://developer.ebay.com/products/merchandising/

USAGE

my $call = eBay::API::Simple::Merchandising->new( 
  { appid => '<your app id here>' } 
);

$call->execute( 'getMostWatchedItems', { maxResults => 3, categoryId => 267 }  );

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( 'totalEntries' );

my @nodes = $dom->findnodes(
  '//item'
);

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

SANDBOX USAGE

my $call = eBay::API::Simple::Merchandising->new( { 
   appid => '<your app id here>' 
   domain => '',
} );

$call->execute( 'getMostWatchedItems', { maxResults => 3, categoryId => 267 }  );

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();

PUBLIC METHODS

new( { %options } }

Constructor for the Finding API call

my $call = eBay::API::Simple::Merchandising->new( { 
  appid => '<your app id here>' 
  ... 
} );

Options

appid (required)

This appid is required by the web service. App ids can be obtained at http://developer.ebay.com

siteid

eBay site id to be supplied to the web service endpoint

defaults to EBAY-US

domain

domain for the web service endpoint

defaults to svcs.ebay.com

uri

endpoint URI

defaults to /MerchandisingService

version

Version to be supplied to the web service endpoint

defaults to 1.0.0

https

Specifies is the API calls should be made over https.

defaults to 0

enable_attributes

This flag adds support for attributes in the request. If enabled request data notes much be defined like so,

myElement => { content => 'element content', myattr => 'attr value' }

defaults to 0

ALTERNATE CONFIG VIA ebay.yaml

An ebay.yaml file can be used for configuring each service endpoint.

YAML files can be placed at the below locations. The first file found will be loaded.

./ebay.yaml, ~/ebay.yaml, /etc/ebay.yaml 

Sample YAML:

# Trading - External
api.ebay.com:
  appid: <your appid>
  certid: <your certid>
  devid: <your devid>
  token: <token>

# Shopping
open.api.ebay.com:
  appid: <your appid>
  certid: <your certid>
  devid: <your devid>
  version: 671

# Finding/Merchandising
svcs.ebay.com:
  appid: <your appid>
  version: 1.0.0

execute( $verb, $call_data )

 $self->execute( 'getMostWatchedItems', { maxResults => 3, categoryId => 267 } );

This method will construct the API request based on the $verb and the $call_data and then post the request to the web service endpoint.

$verb (required)

call verb, i.e. getMostWatchedItems

$call_data (required)

hashref of call_data that will be turned into xml.

BASECLASS METHODS

request_agent

Accessor for the LWP::UserAgent request agent

request_object

Accessor for the HTTP::Request request object

request_content

Accessor for the complete request body from the HTTP::Request object

response_content

Accessor for the HTTP response body content

response_object

Accessor for the HTTP::Request response object

response_dom

Accessor for the LibXML response DOM

response_hash

Accessor for the hashified response content

nodeContent( $tag, [ $dom ] )

Helper for LibXML that retrieves node content

errors

Accessor to the hashref of errors

has_error

Returns true if the call contains errors

errors_as_string

Returns a string of API errors if there are any.

PRIVATE METHODS

_get_request_body

This method supplies the XML body for the web service request

_get_request_headers

This method supplies the HTTP::Headers obj for the web service request

_get_request_object

This method creates and returns the HTTP::Request object for the web service call.

AUTHOR

Tim Keefer <tim@timkeefer.com>

cpanm eBay::API::Simple

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install eBay::API::Simple