NAME

    REST::RequestFast

SYNOPSIS

    use REST::Resource;

    sub main
    {
        my( $restul )   = new REST::Resource( request_interface => new REST::RequestFast() );
        ...
    }

DESCRIPTION

This class provides a standardized interface shim that users can implement in order to wrap around their favorite CGI::Fast interface module so that it can be registered and used by REST::Resource.

If you prefer some module other than CGI.pm to access server-side CGI behavior, then create a module that mimics this interface and register it with REST::Resource as shown in the synopsis.

INTERFACE v. ABSTRACT BASE CLASS

In this case, I prefer Java's interface-style to an abstract base class that someone must override. Since this class derives from CGI.pm for its implementation, you may not want that baggage in your interface implementation. Therefore, all you need to do is register a class that provides the functionality specified by this module.

Since there isn't really a great Perl-based interface specification, REST::Resource will interrogate your registered request_interface to ensure that the class provides the minimum / required methods:

    new()
    http()
    param()
    header()

If you chose to provide an alternate interface implementation, these are the methods that must exist before REST::Resource will accept your interface.

AUTHOR

    John "Frotz" Fa'atuai
    frotz@acm.org

INTERFACE METHODS

new()

USAGE:

    my( $restful )      = new REST::Resource( request_interface => new REST::Request() );
    my( $request )      = new REST::Request();

DESCRIPTION:

This method constructs a new instance of the request object. The first usage shows how users should pass this into REST::Resource. The second usage shows how you might use this in your unit tests.

WARNING:

This constructor plays REST games with CGI.pm by detecting PUT or DELETE and transforming the request (temporarily) to POST, then reverting back to the original value before returning an instance. This allows us to use all of the nice POST processing provided by CGI.pm, but for PUT, and DELETE, not just POST.

http()

USAGE:

    my( $value )        = $request->http( $variable );

DESCRIPTION:

This method extracts the given CGI $variable from the underlying $request and returns its $value.

header()

USAGE:

    $request->header( %args );

DESCRIPTION:

This interface method provides access to the CGI-response header functionality. This method will be called when you have the collection of response headers that you want to pass down to your base class.

param()

USAGE:

    my( $value ) = $request->param( $variable );

DESCRIPTION:

This method returns the $value of the CGI request parameter $variable.

SEE ALSO

    CGI::Fast
    REST::Resource

cpanm REST::Resource

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install REST::Resource