NAME

Pithub::GitData::Blobs - Github v3 Git Data Blobs API

VERSION

version 0.01011

DESCRIPTION

Since blobs can be any arbitrary binary data, the input and responses for the blob api takes an encoding parameter that can be either utf-8 or base64. If your data cannot be losslessly sent as a UTF-8 string, you can base64 encode it.

METHODS

create

• Create a Blob

      POST /repos/:user/:repo/git/blobs

  Parameters:

  • user: mandatory string

  • repo: mandatory string

  • data: mandatory hashref, having following keys:

    • content: mandatory string

    • encoding: mandatory string, utf-8 or base64

  Examples:

      my $b = Pithub::GitData::Blobs->new;
      my $result = $b->create(
          user => 'plu',
          repo => 'Pithub',
          data => {
              content  => 'Content of the blob',
              encoding => 'utf-8',
          }
      );

  Response: Status: 201 Created

      {
          "sha": "3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15"
      }

get

• Get a Blob

      GET /repos/:user/:repo/git/blobs/:sha

  Parameters:

  • user: mandatory string

  • repo: mandatory string

  • sha: mandatory string

  Examples:

      my $b = Pithub::GitData::Blobs->new;
      my $result = $b->get(
          user => 'plu',
          repo => 'Pithub',
          sha  => 'b7cdea6830e128bc16c2b75efd99842d971666e2',
      );

  Response: Status: 200 OK

      {
          "content": "Content of the blob",
          "encoding": "utf-8"
      }

AUTHOR

Johannes Plunien <plu@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Johannes Plunien.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.