NAME

Net::Moo - OOP wrapper for the Moo.com API

SYNOPSIS

 use Net::Moo;

 my $moo = Net::Moo->new();
 my $rsp = $moo->api_call('build', 'stickers', \@designs); 

 print $rsp->findvalue("start_url");

 # Or, if you're feeling verbose...

 use Net::Moo;
 use Net::Moo::Validate;

 my $xml = $moo->builder('stickers', \@designs);

 my $vld = Net::Moo::Validate->new();
 my $rpt = $vld->report_errors($xml)

 if ($vld->is_valid_xml($rpt)){
        my $res = $moo->execute_request($xml);
        my $rsp = $moo->parse_response($res);
        print $rsp->findvalue("start_url");
 }

DESCRIPTION

Net::Moo is an OOP wrapper for the Moo.com API.

OPTIONS

Options are passed to Net::Moo using a Config::Simple object or a valid Config::Simple config file. Options are grouped by "block".

moo

• api_key

  String. required

  A valid Moo API key.

• validate

  Boolean.

  Indicates whether product requests should be validated before they are submitted to the Moo API for processing.

  Default is false.

LOGGING AND ERROR HANDLING

All errors are logged using the object's log method which dispatches notices to an internal Log::Dispatch object. By default, only error messages are logged to STDERR.

METHODS, PRODUCTS AND DESIGNS

This section describes the various arguments passed to the api_call method as well as the various other helper methods that it calls to generate requests to the Moo API.

Methods

• choose

  For submitting a list of images that the user can then modify to make before placing an order.

• build

  For submitting a list of images that will be used to make place and order.

Products

Whatever the Moo API supports. As of this writing, this includes :

• minicard

  Small cards.

• notecard

  Square cards.

• sticker

  Sticky cards. Small ones.

• postcard

  Cards from the past, to the future.

• greetingcard

  OH HAI.

Designs

Designs are the list of images and any formatting used when placing and order. Designs are passed in as an array reference of hash references, with the following keys :

• url

  The URL for the image. Really, the only thing you sort of have to include.

• type

  There's not much point in passing this at the moment as the API docs indicated its value must always be variable for now.

• crop

  Defines how an image will be cropped. Possible values are auto and manual.

  Default is auto.

• manual

  Required only if the crop args is set to manual, it is a hash ref containing the following keys :

  • x

    The top left (x) co-ordinate of the cropping rectangle in pixels.

  • y

    The top left (y) co-ordinate of the cropping rectangle in pixels.

  • width

    The width of the cropping rectangle in pixels.

  • height

    The height of the cropping rectangle in pixels.

• text

  The text for the back of a card. This is also an array reference of hash references, each with the following keys :

  • id

    The id of the text line that tells us where to place it on the back of the card. The IDs allowed are defined in the schema document. Links to examples of where the ids go are below.

  • string

    The text you want to add. As a general rule, if the id is a number, then the string can only be on one line.

  • bold

    This can either be (the string literals) 'true' or 'false'. If ommitted, the default is 'false'

  • align

    This is either left, right or center. Some products only allow a subset of these (such as greetingcard). The default value is left unless otherwise stated in the schema.

  • font

    You can specify one of three fonts: modern (arial/helvetica), traditional (georgia) and typewriter (courier). The default is modern.

  • colour

    A hexidecimal string (with the #) for the colour of the line of text. The default is #000000 (i.e. black).

• text (for greeting cards)

  But wait! There's more!! When you are specifying text for greeting card products, it gets a little more involved.

  Rather than pass an array of hash references, you need to pass a hash of arrays of hash references where the top level keys represent the page on which the text will be placed. (See the examples section below.)

  Valid keys are :

  • main

    Contains an array reference of hash references whose keys (described above) may be : 'string', 'align', 'font', 'colour'

  • back

    Contains an array reference of hash references whose keys (described above) may be : 'id', 'string', 'bold', 'align', 'font', 'colour'

Examples

More examples are available in the tests (./t) directory for this package but here's an idea of how you specify a list of "designs" :

 my @minicards = ({'url' => 'http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2300/2179038972_23d2a1ff40_o.jpg',
                  'text' => [{'id' => 1, 'string' => 'Bold / left / modern / red', 'bold' => 'true', 'align' => 'left', 'font' => 'modern', 'colour' => '#ff0000'},
                             {'id' => 2, 'string' => 'normal / center / traditional / green', 'bold' => 'false', 'align' => 'center', 'font' => 'traditional', 'colour' => '#00ff00'},
                             {'id' => 3, 'string' => 'bold / right / typewriter / blue', 'bold' => 'true', 'align' => 'right', 'font' => 'typewriter', 'colour' => '#0000ff'},
                             {'id' => 4, 'string' => 'normal / left / modern / yellow', 'bold' => 'false', 'align' => 'left', 'font' => 'modern', 'colour' => '#fff000'},
                             {'id' => 5, 'string' => 'bold / center / traditional / purple', 'bold' => 'true', 'align' => 'center', 'font' => 'traditional', 'colour' => '#ff00ff'},
                             {'id' => 6, 'string' => 'normal / right / typewriter / cyan', 'bold' => 'false', 'align' => 'right', 'font' => 'typewriter', 'colour' => '#00ffff'}],
 });

 my @greeting_cards = ({
         'url' => 'http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2300/2179038972_23d2a1ff40_o.jpg',
         'text' => {'main' => [{'string' => qq(Script to the right (red)), 'align' => 'right', 'font' => 'script', 'colour' => '#ff0000'}],
                    'back' => [{'id' => 1, 'string' => qq(Can has cheese burger?)}] },
 });

PACKAGE METHODS

__PACKAGE__->new($cfg)

Where $cfg is either a valid Config::Simple object or the path to a file that can be parsed by Config::Simple.

Returns a Net::Moo object.

OBJECT METHODS YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT

$obj->api_call($method, $product, \@designs)

Submit a set of designs to the Moo API for processing.

Returns a XML::XPath::Node object (referencing the Moo API response <payload> element) on success and undef if an error was encountered.

OBJECT METHODS YOU MAY CARE ABOUT

$obj->builder($product, \@designs)

Generate the required XML document for submitting a list of images that will be used to make cards or stickers.

Returns a string.

$obj->chooser($product, \@urls)

Generate the required XML document for submitting a list of images (\@urls) that the user can pick from and/or modify to make cards or stickers.

Returns a string.

$obj->execute_request($xml)

Issue a request to the Moo API and get back a reponse (fancy talk for HTTP).

Returns a HTTP::Response object.

$obj->parse_response(HTTP::Response)

Parse a response from the Moo API and return the payload information.

Returns a XML::XPath::Node object (referencing the Moo API response <payload> element) on success and undef if an error was encountered.

$obj->config()

Returns a Config::Simple object.

$obj->log()

Returns a Log::Dispatch object.

VERSION

0.1

DATE

$Date: 2008/06/18 06:23:49 $

AUTHOR

Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

http://www.moo.com/api/documentation.php

http://www.moo.com/xsd/api_0.7.xsd

BUGS

Sure, why not.

Please report all bugs via http://rt.cpan.org/

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2008 Aaron Straup Cope. All rights reserved.

This is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Net::Moo

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Net::Moo