NAME

JSON::Feed - Syndication with JSON.

SYNOPSIS

Parsing:

    JSON::Feed->from_string( $json_text );

Generating:

    # Initialize, with some content.
    my $feed = JSON::Feed->new(
        title    => "An example of JSON feed",
        feed_url => "https://example.com/feed.json",
        items    => [
            +{
                id => 42,
                url => 'https://example.com/item/42',
                summary => 'An item with some summary',
                date_published: "2019-03-06T09:24:03+09:00"
            },
            +{
                id => 623,
                url => 'https://example.com/item/623',
                summary => 'An item with some summary',
                date_published: "2019-03-07T06:22:51+09:00"
            },
        ]
    );

    # Mutate
    $feed->set( description => 'Some description here.' );
    $feed->add_item(
        id => 789,
        title => "Another URL-less item here",
        summary => "Another item here. Lorem ipsum yatta yatta yatta.",
    );

    # Output
    print $fh $feed->to_string;

DESCRIPTION

JSON Feed is a simple format for website syndication with JSON, instead of XML.

This module implements minimal amout of API for parsing and/or generating such feeds. The users of this module should glance over the jsonfeed spec in order to correctly generate a JSON::Feed.

Here's a short but yet comprehensive Type mapping between jsonfeed spec and perl.

    | jsonfeed | perl                       |
    |----------+----------------------------|
    | object   | HashRef                    |
    | boolean  | JSON::true, or JSON::false |
    | string   | Str                        |
    | array    | ArrayRef                   |

METHODS

set( $attr, $value )

The $attr here must be a name from one top-level attribute from v1 spec.

The passed $value thus must be the corresponding value.

Most of the values from spec are strings and that maps to a perl scalar veraible. The term `object` in the spec is mapped to a perl HashRef.

Be aware that the spec allows feed extensions by prefixng attributes with underscore character. Thus, all strings begin with '_' are valid. Whatever those extented attributes mapped to are left as-is.

get( $attr )

Retrieve the value of the given top-level varible.

add_item( JSONFeedItem $item )

Apend the given $item to the items attribute. The type of input $item is described in the "Items" section of the spec.

to_string()

Stringify this JSON Feed. At this moment, the feed structure is checked and if it is invalid, an exception is thrown.

from_string( $json_text )

Take a reference to a string that is assumed to be a valid json feed and produce an object from it. Exception will be thrown if the input is not a valid JSON feed.

This method is supposed to be consume the output of to_string method without throwing exceptions.

References

JSON Feed spec v1 https://jsonfeed.org/version/1

AUTHOR

Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>

LICENSE

CC0