NAME

Catalyst::Model::REST - REST model class for Catalyst

VERSION

version 0.19

SYNOPSIS

Use from a controller

# model
__PACKAGE__->config(
	server =>      'http://localhost:3000',
	type   =>      'application/json',
	clientattrs => {timeout => 5},
);

# controller
sub foo : Local {
	my ($self, $c) = @_;
	my $res = $c->model('MyData')->post('foo/bar/baz', {foo => 'bar'});
	my $code = $res->code;
	my $data = $res->data;
	...
}

For internal use

# model
sub model_foo {
        my ($self) = @_;
        my $res = $self->post('foo/bar/baz', {foo => 'bar'});
        my $code = $res->code;
        my $data = $res->data;
        return $data if $code == 200;
}

DESCRIPTION

This Catalyst Model class makes REST connectivety easy.

Catalyst::Model::REST will handle encoding and decoding when using the four HTTP verbs.

GET
PUT
POST
DELETE

Currently Catalyst::Model::REST supports these encodings

application/json
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
application/xml
application/yaml

x-www-form-urlencoded only works for GET and POST, and only for encoding, not decoding.

NAME

Catalyst::Model::REST - REST model class for Catalyst

METHODS

new

Called from Catalyst.

methods

Catalyst::Model::REST implements the standard HTTP 1.1 verbs as methods

post
get
put
delete

All methods take these parameters

url - The REST service
data - The data structure (hashref, arrayref) to send. The data will be encoded
according to the value of the I<type> attribute.

All methods return a Catalyst::Model::REST::Response object.

ATTRIBUTES

Attributes can be set in your application's configuration file. See Catalyst::Manual.

server

Url of the REST server.

e.g. 'http://localhost:3000'

type

Mime content type,

e.g. application/json

clientattrs

Attributes to feed HTTP::Tiny

e.g. {timeout => 10}

AUTHOR

Kaare Rasmussen, <kaare at cpan dot com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-catalyst-model-rest at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Catalyst-Model-REST.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Kaare Rasmussen, all rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

AUTHOR

Kaare Rasmussen <kaare at cpan dot net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Kaare Rasmussen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Catalyst::Model::REST

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Catalyst::Model::REST