AMF::Connection - A simple library to write AMF clients.
use AMF::Connection; my $endpoint = 'http://myserver.com/flex/amf/'; #AMF server/gateway my $service = 'myService'; my $method = 'myMethod'; my $client = new AMF::Connection( $endpoint ); $client->setEncoding(3); # use AMF3 default AMF0 $client->setHTTPCookieJar( HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "/tmp/mycookies.txt", autosave => 1, ignore_discard => 1 ) ); my @params = ( 'param1', { 'param2' => 'value2' } ); my $response = $client->call( "$service.$method", \@params ); if ( $response->is_success ) { my $result_object = $response->getData(); # ... } else { die "Can not send remote request for $service.$method method on $endpoint\n"; };
I was looking for a simple Perl module to automate data extraction from an existing Flash+Flex/AMS application, and I could not find a decent client implementation. So, this module was born based on available online documentation.
This module has been inspired to SabreAMF PHP implementation of AMF client libraries.
AMF::Connection is meant to provide a simple AMF library to write client applications for invocation of remote services as used by most flex/AIR RIAs.
The module includes basic support for synchronous HTTP/S based RPC request-response access, where the client sends a request to the server to be processed and the server returns a response to the client containing the processing outcome. Data is sent back and forth in AMF binary format (AMFChannel). Other access patterns such as pub/sub and channels transport are out of scope of this inital release.
AMF0 and AMF3 support is provided using the Storable::AMF module. While HTTP/S requestes to the AMF endpoint are carried out using the LWP::UserAgent module. The requests are sent using the HTTP POST method as AMF0 encoded data by default. AMF3 encoding can be set using the setEncoding() method. Simple AMF3 Externalized Object support is provided on returned objects from the server. Objects returned are simply left in bless( { ... }, 'something') form and they could be mapped to local to the client abstractions if needed. Dates are left encoded as AMF timestamps which represent the number of milliseconds since the epoch (if required DataTime could be used dividing by 1000 the input timestamp and set timezone accordingly). If encoding is set to AMF3 the Flex Messaging framework is used on returned responses content (I.e. objects casted to "flex.messaging.messages.AcknowledgeMessage" and "flex.messaging.messages.ErrorMessage" are returned).
Simple batch requests and responses is provided also.
See the sample usage synopsis above to start using the module.
Create new AMF::Connection object. An endpoint can be specified as the only parameter. Or set in a second moment with the setEndpoint() method.
Call the remote service method with given parameters/arguments on the set endpoint and return an AMF::Connection::MessageBody response. Or an array of responses if requsted (wantarray call scope). The $params is generally an array reference, but this version of the AMF::Connection code allows other object types too.
Set the AMF service endpoint.
Return the AMF service endpoint.
Set the AMF encoding to use.
Return the AMF encoding in use.
Set the HTTP/S proxy to use. If LWP::Protocol is installed SOCKS proxies are supported.
Return the HTTP/S procy in use if any.
Add an AMF AMF::Connection::MessageHeader to the requests. If $header is a string the header value $value and $required flag can be specified.
Add an HTTP header to sub-sequent HTTP requests.
Allow to specify an alternative LWP::UserAgent. The $ua must support the post() method, proxy() and cookie_jar() if necessary.
Allow to specify an alternative HTTP::Cookies jar. By default AMF::Connection keeps cookies into main-memory and the cookie jar is reset when a new connection is created. When a new cookies jar is set, any existing AMF::Connection cookie is copied over.
Return the current HTTP::Cookies jar in use.
Minimal support for AMF authentication. Password seems to be wanted in clear.
AMF::Connection::MessageBody Storable::AMF, LWP::UserAgent Flex messaging framework / LiveCycle Data Services http://livedocs.adobe.com/blazeds/1/javadoc/flex/messaging/io/amf/client/package-summary.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/blazeds/1/javadoc/flex/messaging/io/amf/client/AMFConnection.html http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/NetConnection.html http://help.adobe.com/en_US/LiveCycleDataServicesES/3.1/Developing/lcds31_using.pdf http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flex/4.0/AccessingData/flex_4_accessingdata.pdf http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/livecycledataservices/documentation.html Specifications http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/amf/amf0_spec_121207.pdf (AMF0) http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/download/attachments/1114283/amf3_spec_05_05_08.pdf (AMF3) SabreAMF http://code.google.com/p/sabreamf/
Alberto Attilio Reggiori, <areggiori at cpan dot org>
Copyright (C) 2010 by Alberto Attilio Reggiori
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
To install AMF::Connection, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm AMF::Connection
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install AMF::Connection
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.