Jifty::Client - Subclass of L<WWW::Mechanize> with extra Jifty features


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NAME

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Jifty::Client - Subclass of WWW::Mechanize with extra Jifty features

DESCRIPTION

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This module is a base for building robots to interact with Jifty applications. It currently contains much overlapping code with Jifty::Test::WWW::Mechanize, except that it does not inherit from Test::WWW::Mechanize.

Expect this code to be refactored in the near future.

METHODS

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new

Overrides WWW::Mechanize's new to automatically give the bot a cookie jar.

moniker_for ACTION, FIELD1 => VALUE1, FIELD2 => VALUE2

Finds the moniker of the first action of type ACTION whose "constructor" field FIELD1 is VALUE1, and so on.

fill_in_action MONIKER, FIELD1 => VALUE1, FIELD2 => VALUE2, ...

Finds the fields on the current page with the names FIELD1, FIELD2, etc in the MONIKER action, and fills them in. Returns the HTML::Form object of the form that the action is in, or undef if it can't find all the fields.

action_form MONIKER [ARGUMENTNAMES]

Returns the form (as an HTML::Form object) corresponding to the given moniker (which also contains inputs for the given argumentnames), and also selects it as the current form. Returns undef if it can't be found.

action_field_value MONIKER, FIELD

Finds the fields on the current page with the names FIELD in the action MONIKER, and returns its value, or undef if it can't be found.

send_action CLASS ARGUMENT => VALUE, [ ... ]

Sends a request to the server via the webservices API, and returns the Jifty::Result of the action. CLASS specifies the class of the action, and all parameters thereafter supply argument keys and values.

The URI of the page is unchanged after this; this is accomplished by using the "back button" after making the webservice request.

fragment_request PATH ARGUMENT => VALUE, [ ... ]

Makes a request for the fragment at PATH, using the webservices API, and returns the string of the result.

field_error_text MONIKER, FIELD

Finds the error span on the current page for the name FIELD in the action MONIKER, and returns the text (tags stripped) from it. (If the field can't be found, return undef).

uri

WWW::Mechanize has a bug where it returns the wrong value for uri after redirect. This fixes that. See http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=9059

session

Returns the server-side Jifty::Web::Session object associated with this Mechanize object.

continuation [ID]

Returns the current continuation of the Mechanize object, if any. Or, given an ID, returns the continuation with that ID.

current_user

Returns the Jifty::CurrentUser object or descendant, if any.

SEE ALSO

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Jifty::Test::WWW::Mechanize

LICENSE

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Jifty is Copyright 2005-2010 Best Practical Solutions, LLC. Jifty is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.


Jifty documentation Contained in the Jifty distribution.
use strict;
use warnings;

package Jifty::Client;
use base qw/WWW::Mechanize/;

delete $ENV{'http_proxy'}; # Otherwise WWW::Mechanize tries to go through your HTTP proxy

use Jifty::YAML;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
use List::Util qw(first);
use Carp;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@_);
    $self->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new);
    return $self;
} 

sub moniker_for {
  my $self = shift;
  my $action = Jifty->api->qualify(shift);
  my %args = @_;

  # Search through all the inputs of all the forms
  for my $f ($self->forms) {
  INPUT: 
    for my $input ($f->inputs) {

      # Look for the matching action
      if ($input->type eq "hidden" and $input->name =~ /^J:A-(?:\d+-)?(.*)/ and $input->value eq $action) {

        # We have a potential moniker
        my $moniker = $1;

        # Make sure that this action actually has the field values we're
        # looking for, if not keep looking
        for my $id (keys %args) {
          my $idfield = $f->find_input("J:A:F:F-$id-$moniker");
          next INPUT unless $idfield and $idfield->value eq $args{$id};
        }

        # It does! Return it...
        return $1;
      }
    }
  }
  return undef;
}

sub fill_in_action {
    my $self = shift;
    my $moniker = shift;
    my %args = @_;

    # Load the form object containing the given moniker or quit
    my $action_form = $self->action_form($moniker, keys %args);
    return unless $action_form;

    # For each field name given, set the field's value
    for my $arg (keys %args) {
        my $input = $action_form->find_input("J:A:F-$arg-$moniker");
        return unless $input;
        $input->value($args{$arg});
    } 

    # Return the form in case they want to do something with it
    return $action_form;
}

sub action_form {
    my $self = shift;
    my $moniker = shift;
    my @fields = @_;
    Carp::confess("No moniker") unless $moniker;

    # Go through all the forms looking for the moniker
    my $i;
    for my $form ($self->forms) {
        no warnings 'uninitialized';

        # Keep looking unless the right kind of input is found
        $i++;
        next unless first {   $_->name =~ /J:A-(?:\d+-)?$moniker/
                           && $_->type eq "hidden" }
                        $form->inputs;

        # Keep looking if the suggested field's don't match up
        next if grep {not $form->find_input("J:A:F-$_-$moniker")} @fields;

        $self->form_number($i); #select it, for $mech->submit etc
        return $form;
    } 
    return;
} 

sub action_field_value {
    my $self = shift;
    my $moniker = shift;
    my $field = shift;

    # Find the form containing the moniker requested
    my $action_form = $self->action_form($moniker, $field);
    return unless $action_form;
    
    # Find the input containing the field requested and fetch the value
    my $input = $action_form->find_input("J:A:F-$field-$moniker");
    return unless $input;
    return $input->value;
}

sub send_action {
    my $self = shift;
    my $class = shift;
    my %args = @_;

    # Setup the URL of the request we're about to make
    my $uri = $self->uri->clone;
    $uri->path("__jifty/webservices/yaml");

    # Setup the action request we're going to send
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new(
        POST => $uri,
        [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/x-yaml' ],
        Jifty::YAML::Dump(
            {   path => $uri->path,
                actions => {
                    action => {
                        moniker => 'action',
                        class   => $class,
                        fields  => \%args
                    }
                }
            }
        )
    );

    # Fire off the request, evaluate the result, and return it
    my $result = $self->request( $request );
    my $content = eval { Jifty::YAML::Load($result->content)->{action} } || undef;
    $self->back;
    return $content;
}

sub fragment_request {
    my $self = shift;
    my $path = shift;
    my %args = @_;

    # Setup the URL we're going to use
    my $uri = $self->uri->clone;
    $uri->path("__jifty/webservices/xml");

    # Setup the request we're going to use
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new(
        POST => $uri,
        [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/x-yaml' ],
        Jifty::YAML::Dump(
            {   path => $uri->path,
                fragments => {
                    fragment => {
                        name  => 'fragment',
                        path  => $path,
                        args  => \%args
                    }
                }
            }
        )
    );

    # Fire the request, evaluate the result, and return it
    my $result = $self->request( $request );
    use XML::Simple;
    my $content = eval { XML::Simple::XMLin($result->content, SuppressEmpty => '')->{fragment}{content} } || '';
    $self->back;
    return $content;
}

sub field_error_text {
    my $self = shift;
    my $moniker = shift;
    my $field = shift;

    # Setup the XPath processor and the ID we're looking for
    my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
    $tree->parse($self->content);
    $tree->eof;

    my $id = "errors-J:A:F-$field-$moniker";

    # Search for the span containing that error
    return $tree->findvalue(qq{//span[\@id = "$id"]});
}

sub uri { shift->response->request->uri }

sub session {
    my $self = shift;

    # We don't have a session!
    return undef unless $self->cookie_jar->as_string =~ /JIFTY_SID_\d+=([^;]+)/;

    # Load the data stored in the session cookie
    my $session = Jifty::Web::Session->new;
    $session->load($1);
    return $session;
}

sub continuation {
    my $self = shift;

    # If we don't have a session, we don't have a continuation
    my $session = $self->session;
    return undef unless $session;
    
    # Look for the continuation info in the URL
    my $id = shift;
    ($id) = $self->uri =~ /J:(?:C|CALL|RETURN)=([^&;]+)/ unless $id;

    # Return information about the continuation
    return $session->get_continuation($id);
}

sub current_user {
    my $self = shift;

    # We don't have a current user if we don't have a session
    my $session = $self->session;
    return undef unless $session;

    # Fetch information about user from the session
    my $id = $session->get('user_id');
    my $object = Jifty->app_class("CurrentUser")->new();
    my $user = $session->get('user_ref')->new( current_user => $object );
    $user->load_by_cols( id => $id );
    $object->user_object($user);

    return $object;
}

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