Weather::Com::Location - class representing one location and its weather


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Weather::Com::Location - class representing one location and its weather

SYNOPSIS

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  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use Weather::Com::Finder;

  # you have to fill in your ids from weather.com here
  my $PartnerId  = 'somepartnerid';
  my $LicenseKey = 'mylicense';

  my %weatherargs = (
	'partner_id' => $PartnerId,
	'license'    => $LicenseKey,
  );

  my $finder = Weather::Com::Finder->new(%weatherargs);

  # if you want an array of locations:
  my @locations = $finder->find('Heidelberg');

  # or if you prefer an arrayref:
  my $locations = $finder->find('Heidelberg');

  foreach my $location (@locations) {
    print "Found weather for city: ", $location->name(), "\n";
    print "The city is located at: ", $location->latitude(), "deg N, ",
		  $location->longitude(), "deg E\n";
	print "Local time is ", $location->localtime()->time(), "\n";
	print "Sunrise will be/has been at ", $location->sunrise()->time(), "\n";

  }

DESCRIPTION

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Using Weather::Com::Location objects is the way to access weather (and some location) information for one specific location (city).

You get Weather::Com::Location objects by using a finder object (see Weather::Com::Finder).

Weather::Com::Location is a subclass of Weather::Com::Cached. An instance of this class will update itself corresponding to the caching rules any time one of its methods is called.

CONSTRUCTOR

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new(hash or hashref)

The constructor will usually not be used directly because you get ready to use location objects by using a finder.

If you ever want to instantiate location objects on your own, you have to provide the same configuration hash or hashref to the constructor you usually would provide to the new() method of Weather::Com::Finder. In addition it is necessary to add a hash element location_id to this config hash. The location_id has to be a valid weather.com location id.

METHODS

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id()

Returns the location id used to instantiate this location.

name()

Returns the name of the location as provided by weather.com.

current_conditions()

Returns a Weather::Com::CurrentConditions object containing the current conditions of the location.

The Weather::Com::CurrentConditions object is instantiated with the first call of the current_conditions() method.

Please refer to Weather::Com::CurrentConditions for further details.

forecast()

Returns a Weather::Com::Forecast object.

Please refer to Weather::Com::Forecast for further details.

latitude()

Returns the latitude of the location.

longitude()

Returns the longitude of the location.

localtime()

Returns a Weather::Com::DateTime object containing the local time of the location.

This value is evaluated each time you call this method. We do not use the value returned from weather.com here because it does not make any sence to use a cached value to show the current time.

localtime_ampm()

This method is deprecated and will be removed with the next release!

Returns the local time of the location.

The time is returned in the format hh:mm [AM|PM]. To get a 24 hour format use localtime instead.

  Sample: 10:30 PM

sunrise()

Returns a Weather::Com::DateTime object containing the time of sunrise.

sunrise_ampm()

This method is deprecated and will be removed with the next release!

Returns the time of sunrise in 12 hour format (see localtime_ampm() for details).

sunset()

Returns a Weather::Com::DateTime object containing the time of sunset.

sunset_ampm()

This method is deprecated and will be removed with the next release!

Returns the time of sunset in 12 hour format (see localtime_ampm() for details).

timezone()

Returns the timezone offset to GMT (without respecting daylight savings time).

units()

Returns a Weather::Com::Units object.

Please refer to Weather::Com::Units for further details.

SEE ALSO

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See also documentation of Weather::Com, Weather::Com::CurrentConditions, Weather::Com::Units.

AUTHOR

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Thomas Schnuecker, <thomas@schnuecker.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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Weather-Com documentation Contained in the Weather-Com distribution.

package Weather::Com::Location;

use 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
use Time::Local;
use Weather::Com::Cached;
use Weather::Com::Units;
use Weather::Com::CurrentConditions;
use Weather::Com::Forecast;
use base "Weather::Com::Cached";

our $VERSION = sprintf "%d.%03d", q$Revision: 1.10 $ =~ /(\d+)/g;

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Constructor
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
sub new {
	my $proto      = shift;
	my $class      = ref($proto) || $proto;
	my %parameters = ();

	# parameters provided by new method
	if ( ref( $_[0] ) eq "HASH" ) {
		%parameters = %{ $_[0] };
	} else {
		%parameters = @_;
	}

	unless ( $parameters{location_id} ) {
		die "You need to provide a location id!\n";
	}

	# set some parameters to sensible values for a pure location
	# object
	$parameters{current}  = 0;
	$parameters{forecast} = 0;
	$parameters{links}    = 0;

	# creating the SUPER instance
	my $self = $class->SUPER::new( \%parameters );

	$self->{ID}    = $parameters{location_id};
	$self->{NAME}  = $parameters{location_name};
	$self->{DEBUG} = $parameters{debug};

	# the weather data will be initialized when the first call on
	# data is performed
	$self->{HEAD}       = undef;
	$self->{WEATHER}    = undef;
	$self->{CONDITIONS} = undef;
	$self->{FORECAST}   = undef;
	$self->{LOCALTIME}  = undef;
	$self->{SUNRISE}    = undef;
	$self->{SUNSET}     = undef;

	# last update will be used to trigger automatic refresh of
	# location data
	$self->{LSUP} = time();

	bless( $self, $class );

	# init object, add timezone to ARGS
	$self->{ARGS}->{lang} = $parameters{language} || 'en';

	return $self;
}    # end new()

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# refresh weather data
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# this calls refresh if weather data is not initialized yet
sub refresh {
	my $self = shift;
	if ( !$self->{WEATHER} || $self->_update ) {
		$self->{WEATHER} = $self->get_weather( $self->{ID} );
		$self->_debug("Weather data refreshed!");
	}
	return 1;
}

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# access location data
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
sub id {
	my $self = shift;
	return $self->{ID};
}

sub name {
	my $self = shift;
	return $self->{NAME};
}

sub units {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	unless ( $self->{HEAD} ) {
		$self->{HEAD} = Weather::Com::Units->new();
	}
	$self->{HEAD}->update( $self->{WEATHER}->{head} );
	return $self->{HEAD};
}

sub timezone {
	my $self = shift;

	unless ( $self->{WEATHER} ) {
		$self->{WEATHER} = $self->get_weather( $self->{ID} );
	}
	$self->{ARGS}->{zone} = $self->{WEATHER}->{loc}->{zone};
	return $self->{ARGS}->{zone};
}

sub latitude {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();
	return $self->{WEATHER}->{loc}->{lat};
}

sub longitude {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();
	return $self->{WEATHER}->{loc}->{lon};
}

# localtime will be calculated because it does not make
# any sense to used a cached time as current local time of
# some location
sub localtime {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	unless ( $self->{LOCALTIME} ) {
		$self->{LOCALTIME} = Weather::Com::DateTime->new( $self->timezone() );
	}

	return $self->{LOCALTIME};
}

sub localtime_ampm {
	carp("Use of deprecated method 'localtime_ampm()'!");
	carp("Please use 'localtime()->time_ampm()' instead.");

	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	return $self->localtime()->time_ampm();
}

sub sunrise {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	unless ( $self->{SUNRISE} ) {
		$self->{SUNRISE} = Weather::Com::DateTime->new( $self->timezone() );
	}

	$self->{SUNRISE}->set_time( $self->{WEATHER}->{loc}->{sunr} );
	return $self->{SUNRISE};
}

sub sunrise_ampm {
	carp("Use of deprecated method 'sunrise_ampm()'!");
	carp("Please use 'sunrise()->time_ampm()' instead.");

	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	return $self->sunrise()->time_ampm();
}

sub sunset {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	unless ( $self->{SUNSET} ) {
		$self->{SUNSET} = Weather::Com::DateTime->new( $self->timezone() );
	}

	$self->{SUNSET}->set_time( $self->{WEATHER}->{loc}->{suns} );
	return $self->{SUNSET};
}

sub sunset_ampm {
	carp("Use of deprecated method 'sunset_ampm()'!");
	carp("Please use 'sunset()->time_ampm()' instead.");

	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	return $self->sunset()->time_ampm();
}

sub current_conditions {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	unless ( $self->{CONDITIONS} ) {
		$self->{CONDITIONS} =
		  Weather::Com::CurrentConditions->new( $self->{ARGS} );
	}
	return $self->{CONDITIONS};
}

sub forecast {
	my $self = shift;
	$self->refresh();

	unless ( $self->{FORECAST} ) {
		$self->{FORECAST} = Weather::Com::Forecast->new( $self->{ARGS} );
	}
	return $self->{FORECAST};
}

#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# internal methods go here
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
sub _update {
	my $self = shift;

	# idea for check if now is one or more days after last update:
	# 1. transform last update to 00:00:00 of last updated date in
	#    local time of location
	# 2. get 00:00:00 of today in local time of location
	# If both in epoc are equal, no update is needed, else we'll get
	# the new location information.
	my @lsup = gmtime( $self->timezone() * 3600 + $self->{LSUP} );    
	$lsup[0] = 0;
	$lsup[1] = 0;
	$lsup[2] = 0;
	my $local_epoc_lsup = timegm(@lsup);

	$self->{LSUP} = time();
	my @now = gmtime( time() + ( $self->timezone() * 3600 ) );
	$now[0] = 0;
	$now[1] = 0;
	$now[2] = 0;
	my $local_epoc_now = timegm(@now);

	if ( $local_epoc_now > $local_epoc_lsup ) {
		$self->_debug("should refresh location cache...\n");
		return 1;
	}

	return 0;
}

1;

__END__