NAME

Net::Trac::Connection - Connection to a remote Trac server

DESCRIPTION

This class represents a connection to a remote Trac instance. It is required by all other classes which need to talk to Trac.

SYNOPSIS

    use Net::Trac::Connection;

    my $trac = Net::Trac::Connection->new( 
        url      => 'http://trac.example.com',
        user     => 'snoopy',
        password => 'doghouse'
    );

ACCESSORS

url

The url of the Trac instance used by this connection. Read-only after initialization.

user

password

ACCESSORS / MUTATORS

logged_in [BOOLEAN]

Gets/sets a boolean indicating whether or not the connection is logged in yet.

mech [MECH]

Gets/sets the Net::Trac::Mechanize (or subclassed) object for this connection to use. Unless you want to replace it with one of your own, the default will suffice.

METHODS

new PARAMHASH

Creates a new Net::Trac::Connection given a paramhash with values for the keys url, user, and password.

ensure_logged_in

Ensures this connection is logged in. Returns true on success, and undef on failure. Sets the logged_in flag.

PRIVATE METHODS

_fetch URL

Fetches the provided relative URL from the Trac server. Returns undef on an error (after warning) and the content ($self-mech->content>) on success.

_warn_on_error URL

Checks the last request for an error condition and warns about them if found. Returns with a TRUE value if errors occurred and a FALSE value otherwise for nicer conditionals.

_tsv_to_struct PARAMHASH

Takes a paramhash of the keys data Given TSV data this method will return a reference to an array.

LICENSE

Copyright 2008-2009 Best Practical Solutions.

This package is licensed under the same terms as Perl 5.8.8.