NAME

Catmandu::Importer::getJSON - Load JSON-encoded data from a server using a GET HTTP request

VERSION

version 0.2.0

SYNOPSIS

The following three examples are equivalent:

    Catmandu::Importer::getJSON->new(
        file => \"http://example.org/alice.json\nhttp://example.org/bob.json"
    )->each(sub { my ($record) = @_; ... );

    Catmandu::Importer::getJSON->new(
        url  => "http://example.org",
        file => \"/alice.json\n/bob.json"
    )->each(sub { my ($record) = @_; ... );
    
    Catmandu::Importer::getJSON->new(
        url  => "http://example.org/{name}.json",
        file => \"{\"name\":\"alice\"}\n{\"name\":\"bob\"}"
    )->each(sub { my ($record) = @_; ... );

For more convenience the catmandu command line client can be used:

    echo http://example.org/alice.json | catmandu convert getJSON to YAML
    catmandu convert getJSON --from http://example.org/alice.json to YAML
    catmandu convert getJSON --dry 1 --url http://{domain}/robots.txt < domains

DESCRIPTION

This Catmandu::Importer performs a HTTP GET request to load JSON-encoded data from a server. The importer expects a line-separated input. Each line corresponds to a HTTP request that is mapped to a JSON-record on success. The following input formats are accepted:

plain URL

A line that starts with "http://" or "https://" is used as plain URL.

URL path

A line that starts with "/" is appended to the configured url parameter.

variables

A JSON object with variables to be used with an URL template or as HTTP query parameters. For instance the input line {"name":"Karl Marx"} with URL http://api.lobid.org/person or the input line {"entity":"person","name":"Karl Marx"} with URL template http://api.lobid.org/{entity}{?id}{?name}{?q} are both expanded to http://api.lobid.org/person?name=Karl+Marx.

If the JSON data returned in a HTTP response is a JSON array, its elements are imported as multiple items. If a JSON object is returned, it is imported as one item.

CONFIGURATION

url

An URI or an URI templates (URI::Template) as defined by RFC 6570 to load JSON from. If no url is configured, plain URLs must be provided as input or option from must be used instead.

from

A plain URL to load JSON without reading any input lines.

timeout / agent / proxy / headers

Optional HTTP client settings.

client

Instance of a Furl HTTP client to perform requests with.

dry

Don't do any HTTP requests but return URLs that data would be queried from.

file / fh

Input to read lines from (see Catmandu::Importer). Defaults to STDIN.

fix

An optional fix to be applied on every item (see Catmandu::Fix).

EXTENDING

This importer provides two methods to filter requests and responses, respectively. See Catmandu::Importer::Wikidata for an example.

request_hook

Gets a whitespace-trimmed input line and is expected to return an unblessed object or an URL.

response_hook

Gets the queried response object and is expected to return an object.

LIMITATIONS

Error handling is very limited.

Future versions of this module may also support asynchronous HTTP fetching modules such as HTTP::Async, for retrieving multiple URLs at the same time..

SEE ALSO

Catmandu

AUTHOR

Jakob Voß

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Jakob Voß.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Catmandu::Importer::getJSON

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Catmandu::Importer::getJSON