Net::Trac::Connection(3)

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 "warn"ing) 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.