NAME

Net::Twitter::API - Moose sugar for defining Twitter API methods

VERSION

version 4.01043

SYNOPSIS

  package My::Twitter::API;
  use Moose::Role;
  use Net::Twitter::API;

  use namespace::autoclean;

  has apiurl => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'rw', default => 'http://twitter.com' );

  base_url 'apiurl';

  twitter_api_method friends_timeline => (
      description => <<'',
  Returns the 20 most recent statuses posted by the authenticating user
  and that user's friends. This is the equivalent of /home on the Web.

      aliases   => [qw/following_timeline/],
      path      => 'statuses/friends_timeline',
      method    => 'GET',
      params    => [qw/since_id max_id count page/],
      required  => [],
      returns   => 'ArrayRef[Status]',
  );

  1;

DESCRIPTION

This module provides some Moose sugar for defining Twitter API methods. It is part of the Net-Twitter distribution on CPAN and is used by "Net::Twitter::API::RESTv1_1", "Net::Twitter::API::Search", and perhaps others.

It's intent is to make maintaining "Net::Twitter" as easy as possible.

METHODS

base_url: Specifies, by name, the attribute which contains the base URL for the defined API.
twitter_api_method: Defines a Twitter API method. Valid arguments are:

authenticate: Specifies whether, by default, API methods calls should authenticate.
datetime_parser: Specifies the Date::Time::Format derived parser to use for parsing and formatting date strings for the API being defined.
description: A string describing the method, suitable for documentation.
aliases: An ARRAY ref of strings containing alternate names for the method.
path: A string containing the path part of the API URL
path_suffix: A string containing an additional suffix to append to the path (for legacy reasons). If you want to suffix appended, pass the empty string. Defaults to ".json".
method: A string containing the HTTP method for the call. Defaults to "GET".
add_source: A boolean, indicating whether or not the "source" parameter should be added to the API call. (The source value is assigned by Twitter for registered applications.) Defaults to 0.
params: An ARRAY ref of strings naming all of the valid parameters. Defaults to an empty ARRAY ref.
required: An ARRAY ref of strings naming all of the required parameters. Defaults to an empty ARRAY ref.
returns: A string describing the return type of the API method call.
deprecated: A boolean indicating whether or not this API is deprecated. If set to 1, code for the method will be created. This option is optional, and is used by the "Net-Twitter" distribution when generating documentation. It defaults to 0.

AUTHOR

Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>

LICENSE

The Twitter API itself, and the description text used in this module is:

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

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