NAME

WWW::REST - Base class for REST resources

VERSION

This document describes version 0.011 of WWW::REST, released May 2, 2015.

SYNOPSIS

    use XML::RSS;
    use WWW::REST;
    $url = WWW::REST->new("http://nntp.x.perl.org/rss/perl.par.rdf");
    $url->dispatch( sub {
	my $self = shift;
	die $self->status_line if $self->is_error;
	my $rss = XML::RSS->new;
	$rss->parse($self->content);
	return $rss;
    });
    $url->get( last_n => 10 )->save("par.rdf");
    $url->url("perl.perl5.porters.rdf")->get->save("p5p.rdf");
    warn $url->dir->as_string;	  # "http://nntp.x.perl.org/rss/"
    warn $url->parent->as_string; # "http://nntp.x.perl.org/"
    $url->delete;		  # dies with "405 Method Not Allowed"

DESCRIPTION

This module is a mixin of URI, LWP::UserAgent, HTTP::Response and an user-defined dispatch module. It is currently just a proof of concept for a resource-oriented API framework, also known as REST (Representational State Transfer).

METHODS

WWW::REST->new($string, @args)

Constructor (class method). Takes an URL string, returns a WWW::REST object. The optional arguments are passed to LWP::UserAgent->new.

$url->url($string)

Constructor (instance method). Takes an URL string, which may be relative to the object's URL. Returns a WWW::REST object, which inherits the same ua and dispatcher.

$url->dispatch($coderef)

Gets or sets the dispatch code reference.

$url->_uri($uri), $url->_ua($uri), $url->_res($uri)

Gets or sets the embedded URI, LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Response objects respectively. Note that $url can automatically delegate method calls to embedded objects, so normally you won't need to call those method explicitly.

$url->get(%args), $url->post(%args), $url->head(%args), $url->put(%args), $url->delete(%args), $url->options(%args), $url->trace(%args), $url->connect(%args)

Performs the corresponding operation to the object; returns the object itself. If dispatch is set to a code reference, the object is passed to it instead, and returns its return value.

$url->parent()

Returns a WWW::REST object with the URL of the current object's parent directory.

$url->dir()

Returns a WWW::REST object with the URL of the current object's current directory.

Methods derived from URI

clone scheme opaque path fragment as_string canonical eq
abs rel authority path path_query path_segments query query_form
query_keywords userinfo host port host_port default_port

Methods derived from LWP::UserAgent

request send_request prepare_request simple_request request
protocols_allowed protocols_allowed protocols_forbidden
protocols_forbidden is_protocol_supported requests_redirectable
requests_redirectable redirect_ok credentials get_basic_credentials
agent from timeout cookie_jar conn_cache parse_head max_size
clone mirror proxy no_proxy

Methods derived from HTTP::Response

code message request previous status_line base is_info
is_success is_redirect is_error error_as_HTML current_age
freshness_lifetime is_fresh fresh_until

NOTES

This module is considered highly experimental and essentially unmaintained; it's kept on CPAN for historical purposes.

SEE ALSO

URI, LWP::UserAgent, HTTP::Response

AUTHORS

Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>

CC0 1.0 Universal

To the extent possible under law, 唐鳳 has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to WWW::REST.

This work is published from Taiwan.

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cpanm WWW::REST

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::REST