NAME

Clustericious::Client - Constructor for clients of Clustericious apps.

SYNOPSIS

 package Foo::Client;

 use Clustericious::Client;

 route 'welcome' => '/';                   # GET /

 route status;                             # GET /status

 route myobj => [ 'MyObject' ];            # GET /myobj

 route something => GET => '/some/';

 route remove => DELETE => '/something/';

 object 'obj';                             # Defaults to /obj

 object 'foo' => '/something/foo';         # Can override the URL

 route status => \"Get the status";        # Scalar refs are documentation

 route_doc status => "Get the status";     # or you can use route_doc

 route_meta status => { auto_failover => 1 } # route_meta sets attributes of routes

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 use Foo::Client;

 my $f = Foo::Client->new();
 my $f = Foo::Client->new(server_url => 'http://someurl');
 my $f = Foo::Client->new(app => 'MyApp'); # For testing...

 my $welcome = $f->welcome();              # GET /

 my $status = $f->status();                # GET /status

 my $myobj = $f->myobj('key');             # GET /myobj/key, MyObject->new()

 my $something = $f->something('this');    # GET /some/this

 $f->remove('foo');                        # DELETE /something/foo

 my $obj = $f->obj('this', 27);            # GET /obj/this/27
 # Returns either 'Foo::Client::Obj' or 'Clustericious::Client::Object'

 $f->obj({ set => 'this' });               # POST /obj

 $f->obj('this', 27, { set => 'this' });   # POST /obj/this/27

 $f->obj_delete('this', 27);               # DELETE /obj/this/27

 my $obj = $f->foo('this');                # GET /something/foo/this

DESCRIPTION

Some very simple helper functions with a clean syntax to build a REST type client suitable for Clustericious applications.

The builder functions add methods to the client object that translate into basic REST functions. All of the 'built' methods return undef on failure of the REST/HTTP call, and auto-decode the returned body into a data structure if it is application/json.

Using Clustericious::Client also allows for easy creation of both perl APIs and command line clients for a Clustericious server. See Clustericious::Client::Command.

ATTRIBUTES

This class inherits from Mojo::Base, and handles attributes like that class. The following additional attributes are used.

client

A client to process the HTTP stuff with. Defaults to a Mojo::UserAgent.

app

For testing, you can specify a Mojolicious app name.

server_url

You can override the URL prefix for the client, otherwise it will look it up in the config file.

res

After an HTTP error, the built methods return undef. This function will return the Mojo::Message::Response from the server.

res->code and res->message are the returned HTTP code and message.

METHODS

new

 my $f = Foo::Client->new();
 my $f = Foo::Client->new(server_url => 'http://someurl');
 my $f = Foo::Client->new(app => 'MyApp'); # For testing...

If the configuration file has a "url" entry, this will be used as the default url (first case above). Additionally, if the ssh_tunnel key is given in the config file, a tunnel may be created automatically (and destroyed when the client is destroyed). Here's a sample configuration :

   "url" : "http://localhost:12345",
   "ssh_tunnel" : {
        "remote_host" : "omidev",
        "server_host" : "localhost",
        "server_port" : "9014"
    },

This would automatically execute this

    ssh -N -L12345:localhost:9014 omidev

in the background.

tx

The most recent HTTP::Transaction.

userinfo

Credentials currently stored.

remote

Tell the client to use the remote information in the configuration. For instance, if the config has

 remotes :
    test :
        url: http://foo
    bar :
        url: http://baz
        username : one
        password : two

Then setting remote("test") uses the first url, and setting remote("bar") uses the second one.

remotes

Return a list of available remotes.

login

Log in to the server. This will send basic auth info along with every subsequent request.

    $f->login; # looks for username and password in $app.conf
    $f->login("elmer", "fudd");
    $f->login(username => "elmer", password => "fudd");

errorstring

After an error, this returns an error string made up of the server error code and message. (use res->code and res->message to get the parts)

(e.g. "Error: (500) Internal Server Error")

FUNCTIONS

route

 route 'subname';                    # GET /subname
 route subname => '/url';            # GET /url
 route subname => GET => '/url';     # GET /url
 route subname => POST => '/url';    # POST /url
 route subname => DELETE => '/url';  # DELETE /url
 route subname => ['SomeObjectClass'];
 route subname \"<documentation> <for> <some> <args>";

Makes a method subname() that does the REST action. Any scalar arguments are tacked onto the end of the url separated by a slash. If any argument begins with "--", it and its successor are treated as part of URL query string (for a GET request). If any argument begins with a single "-", it and it successor are treated as HTTP headers to send (for a GET request). If you pass a hash reference, the method changes to POST and the hash is encoded into the body as application/json.

A hash reference after a POST method becomes headers.

A scalar reference as the final argument adds documentation about this route which will be displayed by the command-line client.

route_meta

Set metadata attributes for this route.

    route_meta 'bucket_map' => { auto_failover => 1 }
    route_meta 'bucket_map' => { quiet_post => 1 }
    route_meta 'bucket_map' => { skip_existing => 1 }

object

 object 'objname';                   # defaults to URL /objname
 object objname => '/some/url';

Creates two methods, one named with the supplied objname() (used for create, retrieve, update), and one named objname_delete().

Any scalar arguments to the created functions are tacked onto the end of the url. Performs a GET by default, but if you pass a hash reference, the method changes to POST and the hash is encoded into the body as application/json.

The 'object' routes will automatically look for a class named with the object name, but upper case first letter and first after any underscores, which are removed:

 object 'myobj';    Foo::Client::Myobj;
 object 'my_obj';   Foo::Client::MyObj;

If such a class isn't found, object will default to returning a Clustericious::Client::Object.

meta_for

Get the metadata for a route.

    $client->meta_for('welcome');

Returns a Clustericious::Client::Meta::Route object.

COMMON ROUTES

These are routes that are automatically supported by all clients. See Clustericious::RouteBuilder::Common. Each of these must also be in Clustericious::Client::Meta for there to be documentation.

version

Retrieve the version on the server.

status

Retrieve the status from the server.

api

Retrieve the API from the server

logtail

Get the last N lines of the server log file.

ssh_tunnel_is_up

Check to see if an ssh tunnel is alive for the current client.

stop_ssh_tunnel

Stop any running ssh tunnel for this client.

ENVIRONMENT

Set ACPS_SUPPRESS_404 to a regular expression in order to not print messages when a 404 response is returned from urls matching that regex.

NOTES

This is a beta release. The API is subject to changes without notice.