NAME
WebService::RESTCountries - A Perl module to interface with the REST Countries (restcountries.eu) webservice.
SYNOPSIS
use WebService::RESTCountries;
my $api = WebService::RESTCountries->new;
$api->search_all();
DESCRIPTION
WebService::RESTCountries is a Perl client helper library for the REST Countries API (restcountries.eu).
DEVELOPMENT
Source repo at https://github.com/kianmeng/webservice-restcountries.
Docker
If you have Docker installed, you can build your Docker container for this project.
$ docker build -t webservice-restcountries .
$ docker run -it -v $(pwd):/root webservice-restcountries bash
# cpanm --installdeps --notest .
Milla
Setting up the required packages.
$ milla authordeps --missing | cpanm
$ milla listdeps --missing | cpanm
Check you code coverage.
$ milla cover
Several ways to run the test.
$ milla test
$ milla test --author --release
$ AUTHOR_TESTING=1 RELEASE_TESTING=1 milla test
$ AUTHOR_TESTING=1 RELEASE_TESTING=1 milla run prove t/01_instantiation.t
$ LOGGING=1 milla run prove t/t/02_request.t
Release the module.
$ milla build
$ milla release
METHODS
new([%$args])
Construct a new WebService::RESTCountries instance. Optionally takes a hash or hash reference.
# Instantiate the class.
my $api = WebService::RESTCountries->new;
api_url
The URL of the API resource.
# Instantiate the class by setting the URL of the API endpoints.
my $api = WebService::RESTCountries->new(api_url => 'https://example.com/v2/');
search_all()
Get all the countries.
search_by_calling_code
Get the details of a country by its calling code, the prefixes for the country phone numbers.
$api->search_by_calling_code('60');
search_by_capital_city
Get the details of a country by its capital city.
# Full name.
$api->search_by_capital_city("Kuala Lumpur");
# Partial name.
$api->search_by_capital_city("Kuala");
search_by_country_code
Get the details of a country by its ISO 3166 two-letters or three-letters country code.
# Two-letters.
$api->search_by_country_code("MY");
# Three-letters.
$api->search_by_country_code("MYS");
search_by_country_codes
Get the list of country by multiple ISO 3166 two-letters or three-letters country codes.
# Two-letters.
$api->search_by_country_codes(['MY', 'SG']);
# Three-letters.
$api->search_by_country_codes(['MYS', 'SGP']);
search_by_country_full_name
Get the details of a country by its full name.
$api->search_by_country_full_name("São Tomé and Príncipe");
search_by_country_name($name)
Get the details of a country by name, either by native or partial name.
# Native name.
$api->search_by_country_name("Malaysia");
# Partial name.
$api->search_by_country_name("Malays");
search_by_currency
Get the details of a country by ISO 4217 currency code.
$api->search_by_currency("MYR");
search_by_language_code
Get the details of the a country by ISO 639-1 language code.
$api->search_by_language_code("ms");
search_by_region
Get list of country by region: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania. Region name is case insensitive.
$api->search_by_region("Asia");
$api->search_by_region("asia");
search_by_regional_bloc
Get list of country by regional bloc: EU, EFTA, CARICOM, PA, AU, USAN, EEU, AL, ASEAN, CAIS, CEFTA, NAFTA, SAARC. Regional bloc name is case insensitive.
$api->search_by_region_bloc("EU");
$api->search_by_regional_bloc("asean");
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2018 by Kian Meng, Ang.
This is free software, licensed under:
The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)
AUTHOR
Kian Meng, Ang <kianmeng@users.noreply.github.com>