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NAME

WWW::JSONAPI - Very thin and inadequate wrapper for JSON APIs

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

This module contains utterly minimal functionality for interacting with JSON-based REST services with or without SSL. It resulted from my development of WWW::KeePassRest, and has the purpose of providing a very thin but convenient abstraction layer on top of LWP and JSON for that API. Other than those, it has no dependencies. Version 0.01 contains only those methods needed by WWW::KeePassRest, so really it shouldn't even be considered Version 0.01, but rather 0.00001 or so.

For a more feature-rich JSON module, you'll probably want WWW::JSON. Seriously. Anything but this one.

   use WWW::JSONAPI;
   
   my $json = WWW::JSONAPI->new(cert_file => 'cert/wwwkprcert.pem',
                                key_file  => 'cert/wwwkprkey.pem',
                                base_url  => 'https://localhost:12984/keepass/');
   
   my $hashref = $json->GET_json ("entry/$uuid");

The last request and response are always available if you have something else you want to do with them.

If the server responds with anything but a 200, the module croaks with the status line of the response. Note that this also applies to 301/302 forwards and the like. Failure to connect is flagged with a 500 Can't connect ___ error; this comes from LWP and is still grounds for croaking.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

Aside from new and ua, the module only includes the calls needed to support WWW::KeePassRest, with no attempt at completeness.

The form of each method is [input]_[method]_[output], where [input] is either "json" or omitted, [method] is GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE, and [output] is either "json" for output that should be JSON-decoded or "string" for output that should be returned with no decoding.

new

Sets up the LWP user agent, including SSL parameters. The following options can be provided:

base_url: the base URL for the API; this will be prepended to every request URL.
cert_file: the relative or absolute path to a certificate file for SSL
key_file: the corresponding key file

If the base_url option is omitted, you will have to specify the full URL for every request. This would be weird, but who am I to say it's not a perfectly valid way of doing things?

ua, req, res

ua: returns the LWP user agent for direct access
req: returns the last request object
res: returns the last response object

json_POST_json

Does a POST request, taking a hashref of parameters to the POST and expecting JSON back, which it converts to a hashref for return to the caller.

json_POST_string

Same as json_POST_json, but simply returns the literal return value without attempting to decode it.

json_PUT_string

Does a PUT request, taking a hashref of parameters to the PUT and expecting a string back that will not be JSON-decoded.

GET_json

Performs a GET request on the URL provided, interpreting the return as JSON and returning a hashref.

DELETE_string

Performs a DELETE request on the URL provided, interpreting the return as a string that will not be JSON-decoded.

AUTHOR

Michael Roberts, <michael at vivtek.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-jsonapi at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-JSONAPI. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc WWW::JSONAPI

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2014 Michael Roberts.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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