eBay::API::SimpleBase - Flexible SDK supporting all eBay web services
This is the base class for the eBay::API::Simple::* libraries that provide support for all of eBay's web services. This base class does nothing by itself and must be subclassed to provide the complete web service support.
http://code.google.com/p/ebay-api-simple
see subclass for more docs.
Calling this method will prepare the request, execute, and process the response.
It is recommended that prepare and process be subclassed rather than this method.
call verb, i.e. FindItems
hashref of call_data that will be turned into xml.
This is called by execute to prepare the request and may be supplied by the subclass.
This is called by execute to process the response and may be supplied by the subclass.
Accessor for the LWP::UserAgent request agent
Accessor for the HTTP::Request request object
Accessor for the complete request body from the HTTP::Request object
Accessor for the HTTP response body content
Accessor for the HTTP::Request response object
Accessor for the LibXML response DOM
Accessor for the hashified response content
Not implemented yet.
Helper for LibXML that retrieves node content
This is the name of the xml element
optionally a DOM object can be passed in. If no DOM object is passed then the main response DOM object is used.
Accessor to the hashref of errors
Returns true if the call contains errors
Returns a string of API errors if there are any.
Accessor to a hashref of api config data that will be used to execute the api call.
siteid,domain,uri,etc.
This method is used to merge config into the config_api hash
This method is used for debugging
This method lets you append errors to the errors stack
This method performs the http request and should be used by each subclass.
This method processes the http request after it has completed.
Upon execute() we need to undef any data from a previous call. This method will clear all call data and is usually done before each execute
Constructs a URL based on the supplied args
The request body should be provided by the subclass
The request headers should be provided by the subclass
The request request agent should be used by all subclasses
The request object should be provided by the subclass
This method will search for the ebay.yaml file and load configuration defaults for each service endpoint
YAML files can be placed at the below locations. The first file found will be loaded.
./ebay.yaml, ~/ebay.yaml, /etc/ebay.yaml
Sample YAML:
# Trading - External api.ebay.com: appid: <your appid> certid: <your certid> devid: <your devid> token: <token> # Shopping open.api.ebay.com: appid: <your appid> certid: <your certid> devid: <your devid> version: 671 # Finding/Merchandising svcs.ebay.com: appid: <your appid> version: 1.0.0
Tim Keefer <tim@timkeefer.com>
Andrew Dittes <adittes@gmail.com> Brian Gontowski <bgontowski@gmail.com>
8 POD Errors
The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:
'=item' outside of any '=over'
You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'
You forgot a '=back' before '=head2'
To install eBay::API::Simple, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm eBay::API::Simple
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install eBay::API::Simple
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.