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NAME

Net::ITE - OOP-ish interface to the Internet Topic Exchange

SYNOPSIS

 use Net::ITE;
 my $ite = Net::ITE->new();

 # Get all the posts for a topic

 my $topic = $ite->topic("montreal_quebec_canada");
 my $posts = $topic->posts();

 while (my $item = $posts->next()) {
    print $item->title()."\n";
    print $item->excerpt()."\n";
 }

 # Add your post to a topic listing

 $topic->ping({title=>"foo",
               url=>"http://foo.com/123",
               excerpt=>"yadda yadda yadda"});

 # Create a new topic

 $ite->new_topic("foobars");

DESCRIPTION

OOP-ish interface to the Internet Topic Exchange.

NOTES

  • The error handling sucks and will be addressed in future releases.

PACKAGE METHODS

__PACKAGE__->new($blogname)

Returns an object.Woot!

OBJECT METHODS

Net::ITE

$ite->topics()

When called in a scalar context, returns an Net::ITE::Iterator object of Net::ITE::Topic objects.

When called in an array context, returns a list of Net::ITE::Topic objects.

$ite->topic($topic)

Returns a Net::ITE::Topic object.

$ite->new_topic($topic)

Returns true or false.

Net::ITE::Topic

$topic->title()

$topic->about()

Not implemented (yet)

$topic->url()

$topic->posts()

When called in a scalar context, returns an Net::ITE::Iterator object of Net::ITE::Post objects.

When called in an array context, returns a list of Net::ITE::Post objects.

$topic->ping(\%args)

  • blog_name

    If this property is not passed then the value passed to the Net::ITE constructor will be used.

  • title

  • url

  • excerpt

Returns true or false.

Net::ITE::Post

$post->title()

$post->url()

$post->excerpt()

Net::ITE::Iterator

$it->count()

$it->next()

Returns an object.Woot!

VERSION

0.05

DATE

$Date: 2003/03/20 05:09:14 $

AUTHOR

Aaron Straup Cope

SEE ALSO

http://topicexchange.com

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2003 Aaron Straup Cope, All Rights Reserved.

This is free software, you may use it and distribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.