LJ-Simple - Changes

Revision history for Perl extension LJ::Simple.

0.15 Fri Feb 24 23:40:57 GMT 2006

Added tags support to QuickPost()
Added ability to return of results of posting to QuickPost()
Added the GetTags() method to return the list of existing tags
available for use

0.14 Wed Oct 5 17:52:45 BST 2005

Added ability to cvs tag to Makefile.PL
Changed certain uses of gmtime() to localtime() when dealing with
the retrival of entries and the like so that the expected results are found.
More sanity checking of the arguments passed to sub-routines
Corrected the encoding of values so that the "+" character
actually ends up as a "+" and not a space.
examples/friends-only: Added some sanity checks to ensure that
entries which are blank do not get acted on.
Fixed SetProtectPublic() so that it actually works; I'm pretty
sure that this used to work so I'm guessing that the LJ flat protocol implementation has changed. Problem noted by Igor Guryanov

0.13 Fri Jul 8 10:35:04 BST 2005

Documentation fix for GetEntries() to note that it will only every
return 50 items no matter what mode is used. Added pointer to SyncItems(). SyncItems() documentation updated to add a pointer to the examples/friends-only script.
Correct the version target in Makefile.PL so that the version shown
in the README file is correctly updated.
Added the Setprop_taglist() method to set tags in posts
Updated examples/ljpost to include setting of tags
Fixed how the SendRequest() handles the response from the server; it
no longer blindly removes \r from the response. Whilst at the moment this is not an issue as the flat protocol is unlikely to contain \r, it could be an issue in the future.
Fixed the test script test.pl to deal with a failure to create the
object; correctly handles returning the right number of tests. Problem noted by STEPANOV
Added support for http_proxy and HTTP_PROXY environment variables
within the LJ::Simple object creation. The environment variables on only looked at iff the http variable is not given during the object creation. Problem noted by STEPANOV

0.12.1 Wed Jan 12 21:13:35 GMT 2005

Minor release for a fix to QuickPost() which caused a runtime error
if a subject was set. The documentation was also corrected to show that the entry option is always required.

0.12 Wed Jan 5 23:35:07 GMT 2005

Added the $LJ::Simple::NonBlock hook to allow better integration with
GUI programs
Added the $LJ::Simple::ProtoSub hook to allow better integration with
GUI programs
The ljpost example script is now placed within the Solaris package
the pkg Makefile target builds
Corrected a bug in ljpost which caused it to handle timezones
incorrectly.
Added the sending of a User-Agent string
GetEntries() has been fixed so that if it is getting entries from a
shared journal that shared journal name is placed within the entries returned back in the hash. Bug reported by Stanislav Sinyagin
Re-worked the documentation so its easier to use
Added the SetProtect() routine as a wrapper around the various
SetProtect*() routines.
Added the LJ::Simple::QuickPost() routine which allows you to quickly
post an entry into LiveJournal without going through the work of object creation et al.

0.11 Wednesday April 14 12:19:02 BST 2004

Re-added the test.pl after people on the CPAN mailing list complained;
however the script has been altered so that out of the box it hardly touches the functionality of LJ::Simple thanks to the removal of the test user on www.livejournal.com. If people wish they can place another username and password in the $user and $pass variables in test.pl to run all of the test.pl Bear in mind that I'm not going to be held responsible for what happens to the journal that test.pl is pointed at though.
Added the DefaultPicURL() routine to return the URL to the default
icon for the user who logged in. Functionality added at request of Gavin Mogan.

0.10 Saturday March 20 21:28:29 GMT 2004

Added the examples directory in the distribution
Fixed a bug in how the SendRequest() routine parsed the
results from the LiveJournal server.
Removed the test.pl script from the distribution as LiveJournal
have removed the test user it depended on
Updated the ljpost example with the ability to post restricted posts
Corrected the example code for GetFriendGroups() shown on the manual page

0.09 Friday January 7 11:09:49 GMT 2004

UTF support is now automatically detected
Added support for the getchallenge method to support the new challenge/response authentication system

0.08 Thursday December 18 11:11:17 GMT 2003

Added a check for zero length responses from the LJ servers
Fix for potential bug relating to unusual responses from LJ web servers.
Added an example script which will make all of the entries within a journal at least friends-only
Fixes to documentation
Added the SetProtectPublic() method as requested by Richard Watts.

0.07 Friday September 12 09:49:40 BST 2003

0.06 Thursday October 3 14:30 2002

0.05 Friday September 20 17:16 2002

Added GetFriendGroups() routine
Added GetDayCounts() routine
Added CheckFriends() routine
Added GetFriends() routine
Added various options to the login/new method. The most useful of
these is the "fast" option which massively reduces the amount of time taken to login... by not really logging in at all. See the docs for more details.
The GetFriendOf() routine now returns a list sorted by the usernames
of the LiveJournals in the list

0.04 Sunday September 1 22:11 2002

0.03 Monday Aug 19 16:44 2002

0.02 Tues Jul 20 15:58:00 2002

0.01 Mon Jul 22 17:19:26 2002