Apache2::ASP::API - A public API for all Apache2::ASP web applications.

  use Apache2::ASP::API;

  my $api = Apache2::ASP::API->new();

  my HTTP::Response $res = $api->ua->get("/index.asp");
  die $res->as_string unless $res->is_success;

Wouldn't it be great if your website had its own public coding API? How about one that you could subclass and add your own features to?

That's what Apache2::ASP::API is all about.

Apache2::ASP::API provides a programatic interface to your Apache2::ASP web applications, allowing you to execute requests against ASP scripts and handlers just as you would from a browser, but without the use of an HTTP server.

Consider the case where you want to upload hundreds of files into your website, but you don't want to do it one-at-a-time.

The following snippet of code would do the trick:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use strict;
  use warnings 'all';
  use Apache2::ASP::API;

  my $api = Apache2::ASP::API->new();

  my @files = @ARGV or die "Usage: $0 <filename(s)>\n";

  foreach my $file ( @files )
  {
    # Assuming /handlers/MM is a subclass of Apache2::ASP::MediaManager:
    my $id = rand();
    my $res = $api->upload("/handlers/MM?mode=create&uploadID=$id", [
      filename => [ $file ]
    ]);

    die "Error on '$file': " . $res->as_string
      unless $res->is_success;

    print "'$file' uploaded successfully\n";
  }# end foreach()

If only logged-in users may upload files, simply log in before uploading anything:

  my $api = Apache2::ASP::API->new();

  my $res = $api->ua->post("/handlers/user.login", {
    user_email    => $email,
    user_password => $password,
  });

  # Assuming $Session->{user} is set upon successful login:
  unless( $api->session->{user} )
  {
    die "Invalid credentials";
  }# end unless()

  ... continue uploading files ...

Or...you could even subclass the API with your own:

  package MyApp::API;

  use strict;
  use warnings 'all';
  use base 'Apache2::ASP::API';

  sub login
  {
    my ($s, $email, $password) = @_;

    my $res = $s->ua->post("/handlers/user.login", {
      user_email    => $email,
      user_password => $password
    });

    # Assuming $Session->{user} is set upon successful login:
    unless( $api->session->{user} )
    {
      die "Invalid credentials";
    }# end unless()

    return 1;
  }# end login()

  1;# return true:

Then your uploader script could just do this:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use strict;
  use warnings 'all';
  use MyApp::API;

  my $api = MyApp::API->new();
  $api->login( 'test@test.com', 's3cr3t!' );

  # Upload all the files:
  $api->ua->upload("/handlers/MM?mode=create&uploadID=" . rand(), [
    filename => [ $_ ]
  ]) foreach @ARGV;

I often develop websites that have both "public" and an "administrative" interfaces that are completely different websites.

For instances in which users of the public website are allowed to submit records that an administrator would manage through the administrative interface, this presents a problem:

My tests look something like this:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -w

  use strict;
  use warnings 'all';
  use Apache2::ASP::API;
  use HTML::Form;
  use Test::More 'no_plan';
  use Cwd 'cwd';

  # We can inspect the data from both the public site and the Admin dashboard:
  my ($admin, $public); BEGIN {
    $public = Apache2::ASP::API->new( 'cwd' => cwd() );
    chdir("../admin-website");
    $admin = Apache2::ASP::API->new( 'cwd' => cwd() );
    chdir("../public-website");
  }

  # Now load up our modules:
  use_ok('My::Foo');
  use_ok('My::Bar');

  # Do stuff on the public website:
  ok( $public->ua->get('/page.asp')->is_success, "yay public" );

  # Do stuff on the admin website:
  ok( $admin->ua->get('/admin-page.asp')->is_success, "yay admin" );

Apache2::ASP::API is a subclass of Apache2::ASP::Test::Base and inherits everything from that class.

Read-only. Returns the current Apache2::ASP::HTTPContext object.

Read-only. Returns the current Apache2::ASP::Config object.

It's possible that some bugs have found their way into this release.

Use RT http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Apache2-ASP to submit bug reports.

Please visit the Apache2::ASP homepage at http://www.devstack.com/ to see examples of Apache2::ASP in action.

John Drago <jdrago_999@yahoo.com>

Copyright 2008 John Drago. All rights reserved.

This software is Free software and is licensed under the same terms as perl itself.