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NAME

Net::Google::Authenticate - would go here

VERSION

  This document describes v0.03 of Net::Google::Authenticate - released December 25, 2012 as part of Net-Google-GData.

SYNOPSIS

Net::Google::Authenticate handles the login procedures for Google services.

This module is a base class for Net::Google::GData. Unless you want to write your own GData module, or equivalent, you're not going to be using this module.

DESCRIPTION

A description would go here.

FUNCTIONS

accountType (required)

Valid values are HOSTED, GOOGLE or HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE.

Defaults to HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE.

Email (required)

Email address used as the login for the requested service.

Passwd (required)

Password used for the Email login for the requested service.

service (required)

Must be a valid service code, but only carps when it doesn't recognize a code to allow for new services to be added.

Check the documentation for the service you're writing code for. Also, http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=62712&topic=10433 has a list of service codes.

Currently known codes are as follows:

  Service                       Code
  ----------------------------  -------
  Calendar data API             cl
  Blogger data API              blogger
  Google Base data API          gbase
  Spreadsheets data API         wise
  Google Apps Provisioning API  apps
  Picasa Web Albums Data API    lh2
  Default Service               xapi

Defaults to xapi.

login

Login to the google services page.

PRIVATE FUNCTIONS

_error_code

Takes an error code returned from Google and returns the explanatory text found at http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForInstalledApps.html#Errors.

INSTALLATION

See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

SEE ALSO

Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.

AUTHOR

Alan Young <harleypig@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Alan Young.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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