NAME

Net::Flickr::API - base API class for Net::Flickr::* libraries

SYNOPSIS

     package Net::Flickr::RDF;
     use base qw (Net::Flickr::API);

DESCRIPTION

Base API class for Net::Flickr::* libraries

Net::Flickr::API is a wrapper for Flickr::API that provides support for throttling API calls (per second), retries if the API is disabled and marshalling of API responses into XML::LibXML or XML::XPath objects.

OPTIONS

Options are passed to Net::Flickr::Backup using a Config::Simple object or a valid Config::Simple config file. Options are grouped by "block".

flick

• api_key String. required

A valid Flickr API key.

• api_secret String. required

A valid Flickr Auth API secret key.

• auth_token String. required

A valid Flickr Auth API token.

• api_handler String. required

        The api_handler defines which XML/XPath handler to use to process
        API responses.

        * LibXML
            Use XML::LibXML.

        * XPath
            Use XML::XPath.

reporting

• enabled Boolean.

Default is false.

• handler String.

The default handler is Screen, as in `Log::Dispatch::Screen'

• handler_args For example, the following :

reporting_handler_args=name:foobar;min_level=info

Would be converted as :

         (name      => "foobar",
          min_level => "info");

        The default name argument is "__report". The default min_level
        argument is "info".

PACKAGE METHODS
__PACKAGE__->new($cfg)

Where $cfg is either a valid Config::Simple object or the path to a file that can be parsed by Config::Simple.

Returns a Net::Flickr::API object.

OBJECT METHODS
$obj->api_call(\%args)

Valid args are :

• method A string containing the name of the Flickr API method you are calling.
• args A hash ref containing the key value pairs you are passing to method

If the method encounters any errors calling the API, receives an API error or can not parse the response it will log an error event, via the log method, and return undef.

Otherwise it will return a XML::LibXML::Document object (if XML::LibXML is installed) or a XML::XPath object.

$obj->get_auth()

Return an XML node element containing the Flickr auth token information for the current object.

Returns undef if no token information is present.

$obj->get_auth_nsid()

Return the Flickr NSID of the user associated with the Flickr auth token information for the current object.

Returns undef if no token information is present.

$obj->upload(\%args)

This is a helper method that simply wraps calls to the Flickr::Upload upload method. All the arguments are the same. For complete documentation please consult:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Flickr-Upload/Upload.pm#upload

(Note: There's no need to pass an auth_token argument as the wrapper will take care of for you.)

Returns a photo ID (or a ticket ID if the call is asynchronous) on success or false if there was a problem.

$obj->log()

Returns a Log::Dispatch object.

VERSION

1.7

DATE

$Date: 2009/08/02 17:16:12 $

AUTHOR

Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Config::Simple

Flickr::API

XML::XPath

XML::LibXML

BUGS

Please report all bugs via http://rt.cpan.org/

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Aaron Straup Cope. All Rights Reserved.

This is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.