NAME

CiviCRM::Client::REST - Client library for the CiviCRM REST API

This Perl module provides a wrapper around the REST web services exposed by CiviCRM. It makes interacting with CiviCRM from Perl scripts much simpler.

SYNOPSIS

use CiviCRM::Client;

my $civicrm = CiviCRM::Client::REST->new('http://mysite.org/civicrm_root/', 'my_civicrm_site_key'); $civicrm->login(name => 'username', pass => 'password'); my $contacts = $civicrm->contact_search(email => 'me@here.com');

DESCRIPTION

The CiviCRM Perl module is a wrapper around LWP::Useragent that makes calling the CiviCRM REST web services much easier from a Perl script.

It uses AUTOLOAD to dynamically construct the URI of the web service based on the method name you use. This is easiest to understand by example:

$civicrm->contact_add($params);

results in:

http://mysite.org/civicrm_root/index.php?q=civicrm/contact/add&foo=bar...

This module is not aware of the web services that exist, it merely calls them based on the methods you call on it. This is a Good Thing because you can add your own API methods to your local CiviCRM instance and then call them with this module. It will also continue to work with future releases of CiviCRM as long as it keeps following the API method naming convention that is being introduced and will hopefully be complete in version 3.1 (not released as of this writing, but many methods will work in versions 2.2 and 3.0 also; give it a try).

Available Methods

In theory this module should work with all methods that the current or future releases of CiviCRM expose. It does this via the AUTOLOAD functionality of Perl, which lets you handle subs you don't explicitly define (it's very cool).

For the current list of available API methods, see this page: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+Public+APIs

In general, any API method can be called on this module by dropping the "civicrm_" prefix and calling it on an instance of this module. This is mostly true for CiviCRM 2.2+ (it's unknown prior to that), but will hopefully be fully true for 3.1 and the foreseeable future after that. So, for civicrm_activity_type_create, you would do something like this:

my $civicrm = CiviCRM->new($site_params); $civicrm->login($credentials); $civicrm->activity_type_create($activity_type);

AUTHOR

This module was written by Wes Morgan <wmorgan@cpan.org>.

new()

Counstructor method. Requires that you pass the root URL of your CiviCRM server and the site key for that server.

Use it like this:

my $civicrm = CiviCRM->new($root_url, $site_key);

getSiteKey()