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

Net::Flickr::API is a wrapper for Flickr::API that provides support for throttling API calls (per second), retries if the API is disabled and marshalling of API responses into XML::LibXML or XML::XPath objects.

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.
api_handler
String. required

The api_handler defines which XML/XPath handler to use to process API responses.
- LibXML
  Use XML::LibXML.
- XPath
  Use XML::XPath.

reporting

enabled
Boolean.

Default is false.
handler
String.

The default handler is Screen, as in Log::Dispatch::Screen
handler_args
For example, the following :
```
 reporting_handler_args=name:foobar;min_level=info
```
Would be converted as :
```
 (name      => "foobar",
  min_level => "info");
```
The default name argument is "__report". The default min_level argument is "info".

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->get_auth()

Return an XML node element containing the Flickr auth token information for the current object.

Returns undef if no token information is present.

$obj->get_auth_nsid()

Return the Flickr NSID of the user associated with the Flickr auth token information for the current object.

Returns undef if no token information is present.

$obj->upload(\%args)

This is a helper method that simply wraps calls to the Flickr::Upload upload method. All the arguments are the same. For complete documentation please consult:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Flickr-Upload/Upload.pm#upload

(Note: There's no need to pass an auth_token argument as the wrapper will take care of for you.)

Returns a photo ID (or a ticket ID if the call is asynchronous) on success or false if there was a problem.