NAME

Net::Flickr::API - base API class for Net::Flickr::* libraries

SYNOPSIS

 package Net::Flickr::RDF;
 use base qw (Net::Flickr::API);

DESCRIPTION

Base API class for Net::Flickr::* libraries

OPTIONS

Options are passed to Net::Flickr::Backup using a Config::Simple object or a valid Config::Simple config file. Options are grouped by "block".

flick

• api_key

  String. required

  A valid Flickr API key.

• api_secret

  String. required

  A valid Flickr Auth API secret key.

• auth_token

  String. required

  A valid Flickr Auth API token.

PACKAGE METHODS

__PACKAGE__->new($cfg)

Where $cfg is either a valid Config::Simple object or the path to a file that can be parsed by Config::Simple.

Returns a Net::Flickr::API object.

OBJECT METHODS

$obj->api_call(\%args)

Valid args are :

• method

  A string containing the name of the Flickr API method you are calling.

• args

  A hash ref containing the key value pairs you are passing to method

If the method encounters any errors calling the API, receives an API error or can not parse the response it will log an error event, via the log method, and return undef.

Otherwise it will return a XML::LibXML::Document object (if XML::LibXML is installed) or a XML::XPath object.

$obj->log()

Returns a Log::Dispatch object.

VERSION

1.2

DATE

$Date: 2005/12/17 17:42:36 $

AUTHOR

Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Config::Simple

Flickr::API

XML::XPath

XML::LibXML

BUGS

Please report all bugs via http://rt.cpan.org/

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005 Aaron Straup Cope. All Rights Reserved.

This is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.