NAME

Games::Lacuna::Client - An RPC client for the Lacuna Expanse

SYNOPSIS

  use Games::Lacuna::Client;
  my $client = Games::Lacuna::Client->new(cfg_file => 'path/to/myempire.yml');
  
  # or manually:
  my $client = Games::Lacuna::Client->new(
    uri      => 'https://path/to/server',
    api_key  => 'your api key here',
    name     => 'empire name',
    password => 'sekrit',
    #session_peristent => 1, # only makes sense with cfg_file set!
    #debug    => 1,
  );
  
  my $res = $client->alliance->find("The Understanding");
  my $id = $res->{alliances}->[0]->{id};
  
  use Data::Dumper;
  print Dumper $client->alliance->view_profile( $res->{alliances}->[0]->{id} );

DESCRIPTION

This module implements the Lacuna Expanse API as of 10.10.2010.

You will need to have a basic familiarity with the Lacuna RPC API itself, so check out http://gameserver.lacunaexpanse.com/api/ where gameserver is the server you intend to use it on. As of this writing, the only server is us1.

The different API modules are available by calling the respective module name as a method on the client object. The returned object then implements the various methods.

The return values of the methods are (currently) just exactly result portion of the deflated JSON responses. This is subject to change!

On failure, the methods croak with a simple to parse message. Example:

  RPC Error (1002): Empire does not exist. at ...

The number is the error code number (see API docs). The text after the colon is the human-readable error message from the server.

You do not need to login explicitly. The client will do this on demand. It will also handle session-timeouts and logging out for you. (Log out happens in the destructor.)

All methods that take a session id as first argument in the JSON-RPC API DO NOT REQUIRE that you pass the session_id manually. This is handled internally and the client will automatically log in for you as necessary.

Methods

new

  Games::Lacuna::Client->new(
    name      => 'My empire',                # empire_name in config file
    password  => 'password of the empire',   # empire_password in config file
    uri       => 'https://us1.lacunaexpanse.com/',   # server_uri in config file
    api_key   => 'public api key',
  );

CONFIGURATION FILE

Some of the parameters of the constructor can also be supplied in a configuration file in YAML format. You can find a template in the examples subdirectory.

  empire_name: The name of my Empire
  empire_password: The password
  server_uri: https://us1.lacunaexpanse.com/

  uri:        will overwrite the server_uri key (might be a bug)
  api_key:

  session_start:
  session_id:
  session_persistent:

SEE ALSO

API docs at http://us1.lacunaexpanse.com/api.

A few ready-to-use tools of varying quality live in the examples subdirectory.

AUTHOR

Steffen Mueller, <smueller@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 by Steffen Mueller

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.