NAME

WebService::Audioscrobbler::User - An object-oriented interface to the Audioscrobbler WebService API

SYNOPSIS

This module implements an object oriented abstraction of an user within the Audioscrobbler database.

    use WebService::Audioscrobbler;

    my $ws = WebService::Audioscrobbler->new;

    # get an object for user named 'foo'
    my $user  = $ws->user('foo');

    # get user's top artists
    my @artists = $user->artists;
    
    # get user's top tags
    my @tags = $user->tags;

    # get user's top tracks
    my @tracks = $user->tracks;
    
    # get user's neighbours
    my @neighbours = $user->neighbours;

This module inherits from WebService::Audioscrobbler::Base.

FIELDS

`name`

The name of a given user as provided when constructing the object.

`picture_url`

URI object pointing to the location of the users's picture, if available.

`url`

URI object pointing to the location where's additional info might be available about the user.

METHODS

`new($user_name, $data_fetcher)`

Creates a new object using either the given $user_name or the \%fields hashref. The data fetcher object is a mandatory parameter and must be provided either as the second parameter or inside the \%fields hashref.

`artists`

Retrieves the user's top artists as available on Audioscrobbler's database.

Returns either a list of artists or a reference to an array of artists when called in list context or scalar context, respectively. The artists are returned as WebService::Audioscrobbler::Artist objects by default.

`tracks`

Retrieves the user's top tracks as available on Audioscrobbler's database.

Returns either a list of tracks or a reference to an array of tracks when called in list context or scalar context, respectively. The tracks are returned as WebService::Audioscrobbler::Track objects by default.

`tags`

Retrieves the user's top tags as available on Audioscrobbler's database.

Returns either a list of tags or a reference to an array of tags when called in list context or scalar context, respectively. The tags are returned as WebService::Audioscrobbler::Tag objects by default.

`neighbours([$filter])`

Retrieves musical neighbours from the Audioscrobbler database. $filter can be used as a constraint for neighbours with a low similarity index (ie. users which have a similarity index lower than $filter won't be returned).

Returns either a list of users or a reference to an array of users when called in list context or scalar context, respectively. The users are returned as WebService::Audioscrobbler::SimilarUser objects by default.

`friends`

Retrieves the user's friends from the Audioscrobbler / LastFM database.

`fetch_users($postfix, $callback)`

Internal method used to fetch users. $postfix should be the users data feed postfix and $callback should be a function reference which will be called with a arrayref of user data as the only parameter and should return user-derived objects.

It returns either an arrayref or a list of objects depending on the calling context.

`resource_path`

Returns the URL from which other URLs used for fetching user info will be derived from.

AUTHOR

Nilson Santos Figueiredo Júnior, <nilsonsfj at cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

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

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