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NAME

Twitter::Daily::Blog::Base - Interface to be used for publishing an entry on any blog

SYNOPSIS

 use Error (:try);
 
 ## The next module implements the subs descibed at Twitter::Daily::Blog::Base 
 use My::Blog::Publisher; 
 
 try { 
     my $blog = My::Blog::Publisher->new( param1 => 'firstParaneterContent', ... );
    
     $blog->login();
     
     ## $filename contains the file path to the story to be published
     $blog->publish( $filename  );
     
     $blog->quit;
 } 
 catch Twitter::Daily::Blog::NoConstructorError with {
        my $E = shift;
    print STDERR "Error in constructor : ", $E->{'\-text'}, "\n";
 } 
 catch Twitter::Daily::Blog::NoLoginError with {
        my $E = shift;
    print STDERR "Error in login : ", $E->{'\-text'}, "\n";
 } 
 catch Twitter::Daily::Blog::NoPublishError with {
        my $E = shift;
    print STDERR "Error in publishing : ", $E->{'\-text'}, "\n";
 } 
 catch Twitter::Daily::Blog::NoQuitError with {
        my $E = shift;
    print STDERR "Error in quitting : ", $E->{'\-text'}, "\n";
 }
 

DESCRIPTION

Interface to be used for publishing an entry on any blog

INTERFACE

All methods throw an error on failure, and in such case the error thrown will be contained as text in -text and a unique numeric value in -value.

The arguments to be used for each method implementation are up to each implementation, meaning that unless otherwise is explicited the method will accept all sort of arguments.

new

Creates a new object.

login

Logins to the server. No arguments are accepted.

publish

Publishes the given story

options

  • filename

    mandatory option that specifies the local filename to be published in the blog.

quit

Ends the publishing process. The method accepts no parameters.