NAME

WWW::Dict - Base class for WWW::Dict::* modules.

VERSION

This document describes WWW::Dict version 0.0.1

SYNOPSIS

    use WWW::Dict;
    my $dict = WWW::Dict->new('Zdic');
    my $definition = $dict->define( $word );
    print YAML::Dump( $definition )

DESCRIPTION

This module is the base class for WWW::Dict::* modules, also a loder class for them. It doesn't query to any dictionary website itself, but only dispatch request to a proper subclass.

INTERFACE

new( dict_site )

Contructor, as usual, also a loader. You have to pass a string representing the dict site you want to load. It should be the same as one of the names under WWW::Dict::* namespace. For example, "Zdic" is a proper value.

define( word )

Query the dictionary website for the definition of word. Return a hashref with various keys depending on the acutal underlying module. Please see the document of those modules for it's keys.

(Note: this might be changed to adapt a proper super-set of keys, or return the definition as an object. However, so far it's still unclear how complicated it could be, so I just keep it simple for now.)

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-dict@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006, Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>. All rights reserved.

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

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