Net::Jifty - interface to online Jifty applications


Net-Jifty documentation Contained in the Net-Jifty distribution.

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NAME

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Net::Jifty - interface to online Jifty applications

SYNOPSIS

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    use Net::Jifty;
    my $j = Net::Jifty->new(
        site        => 'http://mushroom.mu/',
        cookie_name => 'MUSHROOM_KINGDOM_SID',
        email       => 'god@mushroom.mu',
        password    => 'melange',
    );

    # the story begins
    $j->create(Hero => name => 'Mario', job => 'Plumber');

    # find the hero whose job is Plumber and change his name to Luigi
    # and color to green
    $j->update(Hero => job => 'Plumber',
        name  => 'Luigi',
        color => 'Green',
    );

    # win!
    $j->delete(Enemy => name => 'Bowser');

DESCRIPTION

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Jifty is a full-stack web framework. It provides an optional REST interface for applications. Using this module, you can interact with that REST interface to write client-side utilities.

You can use this module directly, but you'll be better off subclassing it, such as what we've done for Net::Hiveminder.

This module also provides a number of convenient methods for writing short scripts. For example, passing use_config => 1 to new will look at the config file for the username and password (or SID) of the user. If neither is available, it will prompt the user for them.

METHODS

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CRUD - create, read, update and delete.

create MODEL, FIELDS

Create a new object of type MODEL with the FIELDS set.

read MODEL, KEY => VALUE

Find some MODEL where KEY is VALUE and return it.

update MODEL, KEY => VALUE, FIELDS

Find some MODEL where KEY is VALUE and set FIELDS on it.

delete MODEL, KEY => VALUE

Find some MODEL where KEY is VALUE and delete it.

Other actions

search MODEL, FIELDS[, OUTCOLUMN]

Searches for all objects of type MODEL that satisfy FIELDS. The optional OUTCOLUMN defines the output column, in case you don't want the entire records.

act ACTION, ARGS

Perform any ACTION, using ARGS. This does use the REST interface.

Arguments of actions

Arguments are treated as arrays with (name, value) pairs so you can do the following:

    $jifty->create('Model', x => 1, x => 2, x => 3 );

Some actions may require file uploads then you can use hash reference as value with content, filename and content_type fields. filename and content_type are optional. content_type by default is 'application/octeat-stream'.

validate_action_args action => args

Validates the given action, to check to make sure that all mandatory arguments are given and that no unknown arguments are given.

Arguments are checked CRUD and act methods if 'strict_arguments' is set to true.

You may give action as a string, which will be interpreted as the action name; or as an array reference for CRUD - the first element will be the action (create, update, or delete) and the second element will be the model name.

This will throw an error or if validation succeeds, will return 1.

Specifications of actions and models

get_action_spec NAME

Returns the action spec (which arguments it takes, and metadata about them). The first request for a particular action will ask the server for the spec. Subsequent requests will return it from the cache.

get_model_spec NAME

Returns the model spec (which columns it has). The first request for a particular model will ask the server for the spec. Subsequent requests will return it from the cache.

Subclassing

BUILD

Each Net::Jifty object will do the following upon creation:

Read config

..but only if you use_config is set to true.

Log in

..unless a sid is available, in which case we're already logged in.

login

This method is called automatically when each Net::Jifty object is constructed (unless a session ID is passed in).

This assumes your site is using Jifty::Plugin::Authentication::Password. If that's not the case, override this in your subclass.

prompt_login_info

This will ask the user for her email and password. It may do so repeatedly until login is successful.

call ACTION, ARGS

This uses the Jifty "web services" API to perform ACTION. This is not the REST interface, though it resembles it to some degree.

This module currently only uses this to log in.

Requests helpers

post URL, ARGS

This will post ARGS to URL. See the documentation for method about the format of URL.

get URL, ARGS

This will get the specified URL with ARGS as query parameters. See the documentation for method about the format of URL.

method METHOD, URL[, ARGS]

This will perform a METHOD (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc) using the internal LWP::UserAgent object.

URL may be a string or an array reference (which will have its parts properly escaped and joined with /). URL already has http://your.site/=/ prepended to it, and .yml appended to it, so you only need to pass something like model/YourApp.Model.Foo/name, or [qw/model YourApp.Model.Foo name].

This will return the data structure returned by the Jifty application, or throw an error.

form_url_encoded_args ARGS

This will take an array containing (name, value) argument pairs and convert those arguments into URL encoded form. I.e., (x => 1, y => 2, z => 3) becomes:

  x=1&y=2&z=3

These are then ready to be appened to the URL on a GET or placed into the content of a PUT. However this method can not handle file uploads as they must be sent using 'multipart/form-date'.

See also "form_form_data_args ARGS"|"form_form_data_args" and "Arguments of actions".

form_form_data_args ARGS

This will take an array containing (name, value) argument pairs and convert those arguments into HTTP::Message objects ready for adding to a 'mulitpart/form-data' HTTP::Request as parts with something like:

    my $req = HTTP::Request->new( POST => $uri );
    $req->header('Content-type' => 'multipart/form-data');
    $req->add_part( $_ ) foreach $self->form_form_data_args( @args );

This method can handle file uploads, read more in "Arguments of actions".

See also "form_form_data_args ARGS"|"form_form_data_args" and "Arguments of actions".

join_url FRAGMENTS

Encodes FRAGMENTS and joins them with /.

escape STRINGS

Returns STRINGS, properly URI-escaped.

Various helpers

email_eq EMAIL, EMAIL

Compares the two email addresses. Returns true if they're equal, false if they're not.

is_me EMAIL

Returns true if EMAIL looks like it is the same as the current user's.

email_of ID

Retrieve user ID's email address.

load_date DATE

Loads DATE (which must be of the form YYYY-MM-DD) into a DateTime object.

get_sid

Retrieves the sid from the LWP::UserAgent object.

Working with config

load_config

This will return a hash reference of the user's preferences. Because this method is designed for use in small standalone scripts, it has a few peculiarities.

It will warn if the permissions are too liberal on the config file, and fix them.

It will prompt the user for an email and password if necessary. Given the email and password, it will attempt to log in using them. If that fails, then it will try again.

Upon successful login, it will write a new config consisting of the options already in the config plus session ID, email, and password.

config_permissions

This will warn about (and fix) config files being readable by group or others.

read_config_file

This transforms the config file into a hashref. It also does any postprocessing needed, such as transforming localhost to 127.0.0.1 (due to an obscure bug, probably in HTTP::Cookies).

The config file is a YAML document that looks like:

    ---
    email: you@example.com
    password: drowssap
    sid: 11111111111111111111111111111111

write_config_file

This will write the config to disk. This is usually only done when a sid is discovered, but may happen any time.

filter_config [DIRECTORY] -> HASH

Looks at the (given or) current directory, and all parent directories, for files named $self->filter_file. Each file is YAML. The contents of the files will be merged (such that child settings override parent settings), and the merged hash will be returned.

What this is used for is up to the application or subclasses. Net::Jifty doesn't look at this at all, but it may in the future (such as for email and password).

SEE ALSO

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Jifty, Net::Hiveminder

AUTHORS

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Shawn M Moore, <sartak at bestpractical.com>

Ruslan Zakirov, <ruz at bestpractical.com>

Jesse Vincent, <jesse at bestpractical.com>

CONTRIBUTORS

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Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp, <hanenkamp@gmail.com>,

BUGS

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Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-net-jifty at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Net-Jifty.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

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Net-Jifty documentation Contained in the Net-Jifty distribution.

package Net::Jifty;
use Any::Moose;

our $VERSION = '0.14';

use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI;

use YAML;

use Encode;
use Fcntl qw(:mode);

has site => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    required      => 1,
    documentation => "The URL of your application",
    trigger       => sub {
        # this canonicalizes localhost to 127.0.0.1 because of an (I think)
        # HTTP::Cookies bug. cookies aren't sent out for localhost.
        my ($self, $site) = @_;

        if ($site =~ s/\blocalhost\b/127.0.0.1/) {
            $self->site($site);
        }
    },
);

has cookie_name => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    required      => 1,
    documentation => "The name of the session ID cookie. This can be found in your config under Framework/Web/SessinCookieName",
);

has appname => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    documentation => "The name of the application, as it is known to Jifty",
);

has email => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    documentation => "The email address to use to log in",
);

has password => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    documentation => "The password to use to log in",
);

has sid => (
    is  => 'rw',
    isa => 'Str',
    documentation => "The session ID, from the cookie_name cookie. You can use this to bypass login",
    trigger => sub {
        my $self = shift;

        my $uri = URI->new($self->site);
        $self->ua->cookie_jar->set_cookie(0, $self->cookie_name,
                                          $self->sid, '/',
                                          $uri->host, $uri->port,
                                          0, 0, undef, 1);
    },
);

has ua => (
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'LWP::UserAgent',
    default => sub {
        my $args = shift;

        my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

        $ua->cookie_jar({});
        push @{ $ua->requests_redirectable }, qw( POST PUT DELETE );

        # Load the user's proxy settings from %ENV
        $ua->env_proxy;

        return $ua;
    },
);

has config_file => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    default       => "$ENV{HOME}/.jifty",
    predicate     => 'has_config_file',
    documentation => "The place to look for the user's config file",
);

has use_config => (
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'Bool',
    default => 0,
    documentation => "Whether or not to use the user's config",
);

has config => (
    is      => 'rw',
    isa     => 'HashRef',
    default => sub { {} },
    documentation => "Storage for the user's config",
);

has use_filters => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Bool',
    default       => 1,
    documentation => "Whether or not to use config files in the user's directory tree",
);

has filter_file => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Str',
    default       => ".jifty",
    documentation => "The filename to look for in each parent directory",
);

has strict_arguments => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'Bool',
    default       => 0,
    documentation => "Check to make sure mandatory arguments are provided, and no unknown arguments are included",
);

has action_specs => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'HashRef',
    default       => sub { {} },
    documentation => "The cache for action specifications",
);

has model_specs => (
    is            => 'rw',
    isa           => 'HashRef',
    default       => sub { {} },
    documentation => "The cache for model specifications",
);

sub BUILD {
    my $self = shift;

    $self->load_config
        if $self->use_config && $self->has_config_file;

    $self->login
        unless $self->sid;
}

sub login {
    my $self = shift;

    return if $self->sid;

    confess "Unable to log in without an email and password."
        unless $self->email && $self->password;

    confess 'Your email did not contain an "@" sign. Did you accidentally use double quotes?'
        if $self->email !~ /@/;

    my $result = $self->call(Login =>
                                address  => $self->email,
                                password => $self->password);

    confess "Unable to log in."
        if $result->{failure};

    $self->get_sid;
    return 1;
}

sub call {
    my $self    = shift;
    my $action  = shift;
    my %args    = @_;
    my $moniker = 'fnord';

    my $res = $self->ua->post(
        $self->site . "/__jifty/webservices/yaml",
        {   "J:A-$moniker" => $action,
            map { ( "J:A:F-$_-$moniker" => $args{$_} ) } keys %args
        }
    );

    if ( $res->is_success ) {
        return YAML::Load( Encode::decode_utf8($res->content) )->{$moniker};
    } else {
        confess $res->status_line;
    }
}

sub form_url_encoded_args {
    my $self = shift;

    my $uri = '';
    while (my ($key, $value) = splice @_, 0, 2) {
        $uri .= join('=', map { $self->escape($_) } $key, $value) . '&';
    }
    chop $uri;

    return $uri;
}

sub form_form_data_args {
    my $self = shift;

    my @res;
    while (my ($key, $value) = splice @_, 0, 2) {
        my $disposition = 'form-data; name="'. Encode::encode( 'MIME-Q', $key ) .'"';
        unless ( ref $value ) {
            push @res, HTTP::Message->new(
                ['Content-Disposition' => $disposition ],
                $value,
            );
            next;
        }
        
        if ( $value->{'filename'} ) {
            $value->{'filename'} = Encode::encode( 'MIME-Q', $value->{'filename'} );
            $disposition .= '; filename="'. delete ( $value->{'filename'} ) .'"';
        }
        push @res, HTTP::Message->new(
            [
                'Content-Type' => $value->{'content_type'} || 'application/octet-stream',
                'Content-Disposition' => $disposition,
            ],
            delete $value->{content},
        );
    }
    return @res;
}

sub method {
    my $self   = shift;
    my $method = lc(shift);
    my $url    = shift;
    my @args   = @_;

    $url = $self->join_url(@$url)
        if ref($url) eq 'ARRAY';

    # remove trailing /
    $url =~ s{/+$}{};

    my $uri = $self->site . '/=/' . $url . '.yml';

    my $res;

    if ($method eq 'get' || $method eq 'head') {
        $uri .= '?' . $self->form_url_encoded_args(@args)
            if @args;

        $res = $self->ua->$method($uri);
    }
    else {
        my $req = HTTP::Request->new(
            uc($method) => $uri,
        );

        if (@args) {
            if ( grep ref $_, @args ) {
                $req->header('Content-type' => 'multipart/form-data');
                $req->add_part( $_ ) foreach $self->form_form_data_args(@args);
            } else {
                $req->header('Content-type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
                $req->content( $self->form_url_encoded_args(@args) );
            }
        }

        $res = $self->ua->request($req);

        # XXX Compensation for a bug in Jifty::Plugin::REST... it doesn't
        # remember to add .yml when redirecting after an update, so we will
        # try to do that ourselves... fixed in a Jifty coming to stores near
        # you soon!
        if ($res->is_success && $res->content_type eq 'text/html') {
            $req = $res->request->clone;
            $req->uri($req->uri . '.yml');
            $res = $self->ua->request($req);
        }
    }

    if ($res->is_success) {
        return YAML::Load( Encode::decode_utf8($res->content) );
    } else {
        confess $res->status_line;
    }
}

sub post {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->method('post', @_);
}

sub get {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->method('get', @_);
}

sub act {
    my $self   = shift;
    my $action = shift;

    $self->validate_action_args($action => @_)
        if $self->strict_arguments;

    return $self->post(["action", $action], @_);
}

sub create {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $model = shift;

    $self->validate_action_args([create => $model] => @_)
        if $self->strict_arguments;

    return $self->post(["model", $model], @_);
}

sub delete {
    my $self   = shift;
    my $model  = shift;
    my $key    = shift;
    my $value  = shift;

    $self->validate_action_args([delete => $model] => $key => $value)
        if $self->strict_arguments;

    return $self->method(delete => ["model", $model, $key, $value]);
}

sub update {
    my $self   = shift;
    my $model  = shift;
    my $key    = shift;
    my $value  = shift;

    $self->validate_action_args([update => $model] => $key => $value, @_)
        if $self->strict_arguments;

    return $self->method(put => ["model", $model, $key, $value], @_);
}

sub read {
    my $self   = shift;
    my $model  = shift;
    my $key    = shift;
    my $value  = shift;

    return $self->get(["model", $model, $key, $value]);
}

sub search {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $model = shift;
    my @args;

    while (@_) {
        if (@_ == 1) {
            push @args, shift;
        }
        else {
            # id => [1,2,3] maps to id/1/id/2/id/3
            if (ref($_[1]) eq 'ARRAY') {
                push @args, map { $_[0] => $_ } @{ $_[1] };
                splice @_, 0, 2;
            }
            else {
                push @args, splice @_, 0, 2;
            }
        }
    }

    return $self->get(["search", $model, @args]);
}

sub validate_action_args {
    my $self   = shift;
    my $action = shift;
    my %args   = @_;

    my $name;
    if (ref($action) eq 'ARRAY') {
        my ($operation, $model) = @$action;

        # drop MyApp::Model::
        $model =~ s/.*:://;

        confess "Invalid model operation: $operation. Expected 'create', 'update', or 'delete'." unless $operation =~ m{^(?:create|update|delete)$}i;

        $name = ucfirst(lc $operation) . $model;
    }
    else {
        $name = $action;
    }

    my $action_spec = $self->get_action_spec($name);

    for my $arg (keys %$action_spec) {
        confess "Mandatory argument '$arg' not given for action $name."
            if $action_spec->{$arg}{mandatory} && !defined($args{$arg});
        delete $args{$arg};
    }

    if (keys %args) {
        confess "Unknown arguments given for action $name: "
              . join(', ', keys %args);
    }

    return 1;
}

sub get_action_spec {
    my $self = shift;
    my $name = shift;

    unless ($self->action_specs->{$name}) {
        $self->action_specs->{$name} = $self->get("action/$name");
    }

    return $self->action_specs->{$name};
}

sub get_model_spec {
    my $self = shift;
    my $name = shift;

    unless ($self->model_specs->{$name}) {
        $self->model_specs->{$name} = $self->get("model/$name");
    }

    return $self->model_specs->{$name};
}

sub get_sid {
    my $self = shift;
    my $cookie = $self->cookie_name;

    my $sid;
    $sid = $1
        if $self->ua->cookie_jar->as_string =~ /\Q$cookie\E=([^;]+)/;

    $self->sid($sid);
}

sub join_url {
    my $self = shift;

    return join '/', map { $self->escape($_) } grep { defined } @_
}

sub escape {
    my $self = shift;

    return map { s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_.!~*'()-])/uc sprintf("%%%02X", ord $1)/eg; $_ }
           map { Encode::encode_utf8($_) }
           @_
}

sub load_date {
    my $self = shift;
    my $ymd  = shift;

    my ($y, $m, $d) = $ymd =~ /^(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)(?: 00:00:00)?$/
        or confess "Invalid date passed to load_date: $ymd. Expected yyyy-mm-dd.";

    require DateTime;
    return DateTime->new(
        time_zone => 'floating',
        year      => $y,
        month     => $m,
        day       => $d,
    );
}

sub email_eq {
    my $self = shift;
    my $a    = shift;
    my $b    = shift;

    # if one's defined and the other isn't, return 0
    return 0 unless (defined $a ? 1 : 0)
                 == (defined $b ? 1 : 0);

    return 1 if !defined($a) && !defined($b);

    # so, both are defined

    require Email::Address;

    for ($a, $b) {
        $_ = 'nobody@localhost' if $_ eq 'nobody' || /<nobody>/;
        my ($email) = Email::Address->parse($_);
        $_ = lc($email->address);
    }

    return $a eq $b;
}

sub is_me {
    my $self = shift;
    my $email = shift;

    return 0 if !defined($email);

    return $self->email_eq($self->email, $email);
}

sub load_config {
    my $self = shift;

    $self->config_permissions;
    $self->read_config_file;

    # allow config to override everything. this may need to be less free in
    # the future
    while (my ($key, $value) = each %{ $self->config }) {
        $self->$key($value)
            if $self->can($key);
    }

    $self->prompt_login_info
        unless $self->config->{email} || $self->config->{sid};

    # update config if we are logging in manually
    unless ($self->config->{sid}) {

        # if we have user/pass in the config then we still need to log in here
        unless ($self->sid) {
            $self->login;
        }

        # now write the new config
        $self->config->{sid} = $self->sid;
        $self->write_config_file;
    }

    return $self->config;
}

sub config_permissions {
    my $self = shift;
    my $file = $self->config_file;

    return if $^O eq 'MSWin32';
    return unless -e $file;
    my @stat = stat($file);
    my $mode = $stat[2];
    if ($mode & S_IRGRP || $mode & S_IROTH) {
        warn "Config file $file is readable by users other than you, fixing.";
        chmod 0600, $file;
    }
}

sub read_config_file {
    my $self = shift;
    my $file = $self->config_file;

    return unless -e $file;

    $self->config(YAML::LoadFile($self->config_file) || {});

    if ($self->config->{site}) {
        # Somehow, localhost gets normalized to localhost.localdomain,
        # and messes up HTTP::Cookies when we try to set cookies on
        # localhost, since it doesn't send them to
        # localhost.localdomain.
        $self->config->{site} =~ s/localhost/127.0.0.1/;
    }
}

sub write_config_file {
    my $self = shift;
    my $file = $self->config_file;

    YAML::DumpFile($file, $self->config);
    chmod 0600, $file;
}

sub prompt_login_info {
    my $self = shift;

    print << "END_WELCOME";
Before we get started, please enter your @{[ $self->site ]}
username and password.

This information will be stored in @{[ $self->config_file ]},
should you ever need to change it.

END_WELCOME

    local $| = 1; # Flush buffers immediately

    while (1) {
        print "First, what's your email address? ";
        $self->config->{email} = <STDIN>;
        chomp($self->config->{email});

        my $read_mode = eval {
            require Term::ReadKey;
            \&Term::ReadKey::ReadMode;
        } || sub {};

        print "And your password? ";
        $read_mode->('noecho');
        $self->config->{password} = <STDIN>;
        chomp($self->config->{password});
        $read_mode->('restore');

        print "\n";

        $self->email($self->config->{email});
        $self->password($self->config->{password});

        last if eval { $self->login };

        $self->email('');
        $self->password('');

        print "That combination doesn't seem to be correct. Try again?\n";
    }
}

sub filter_config {
    my $self = shift;

    return {} unless $self->use_filters;

    my $all_config = {};

    require Path::Class;
    require Cwd;
    my $dir = Path::Class::dir(shift || Cwd::getcwd());

    require Hash::Merge;
    my $old_behavior = Hash::Merge::get_behavior();
    Hash::Merge::set_behavior('RIGHT_PRECEDENT');

    while (1) {
        my $file = $dir->file( $self->filter_file )->stringify;

        if (-r $file) {
            my $this_config = YAML::LoadFile($file);
            $all_config = Hash::Merge::merge($this_config, $all_config);
        }

        my $parent = $dir->parent;
        last if $parent eq $dir;
        $dir = $parent;
    }

    Hash::Merge::set_behavior($old_behavior);

    return $all_config;
}

sub email_of {
    my $self = shift;
    my $id = shift;

    my $user = $self->read(User => id => $id);
    return $user->{email};
}

__PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable;
no Any::Moose;

1;

__END__