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/ WWW::USF::Directory

NAME

WWW::USF::Directory - Access to USF's online directory

VERSION

This documentation refers to version 0.003001

SYNOPSIS

# Make a directory object
my $directory = WWW::USF::Directory->new();

# Make all searches return only staff
$directory->include_faculty(0);
$directory->include_staff(1);
$directory->include_students(0);

# Search for people with the name "Jimmy"
foreach my $staff ($directory->search(name => 'Jimmy')) {
    # Full Name: email@address
    print $staff->full_name, ': ', $staff->email_address, "\n";
}

# This search will also include students
foreach my $entry ($directory->search(name => 'Barnes',
                                      include_students => 1)) {
    print $entry->full_name, "\n";

# This search will be in the Tampa campus
foreach my $entry ($directory->search(name => 'Williams',
                                      campus => 'Tampa')) {
    print $entry->full_name, "\n";
}

# Print out the list of colleges
print join "\n", $directory->college_list, q{};

DESCRIPTION

This provides a way in which you can interact with the online directory at the University of South Florida.

CONSTRUCTOR

This is fully object-oriented, and as such before any method can be used, the constructor needs to be called to create an object to work with.

new

This will construct a new object.

new(%attributes)

%attributes is a HASH where the keys are attributes (specified in the "ATTRIBUTES" section).

new($attributes)

$attributes is a HASHREF where the keys are attributes (specified in the "ATTRIBUTES" section).

ATTRIBUTES

# Set an attribute
$object->attribute_name($new_value);

# Get an attribute
my $value = $object->attribute_name;

directory_url

This is the URL that commands are sent to in order to interact with the online directory. This can be a URI object or a string. This will always return a URI object.

include_faculty

This a Boolean of whether or not to include faculty in the search results. The default is true.

include_staff

This a Boolean of whether or not to include staff in the search results. The default is true.

include_students

This a Boolean of whether or not to include students in the search results. The default is false.

user_agent

This is the user agent that will be used to make the HTTP requests. This internally maps to the user agent in the Net::SAJAX object and the default is the default for Net::SAJAX.

METHODS

campus_list

This will return a list of strings that are the names of the campuses.

college_list

This will return a list of strings that are the names of the colleges.

department_list

This will return a list of strings that are the names of the departments.

This will search the online directory and return an array of WWW::USF::Directory::Entry objects as the results of the search. This method takes a HASH as the argument with the following keys:

campus

This is the string name of the campus to search in. A list of possible entries can be retrieved using "campus_list". The default to to search all campuses.

college

This is the string name of the college to search in. A list of possible entries can be retrieved using "college_list". The default is to search all colleges.

department

This is the string name of the department to search in. A list of possible entries can be retrieved using "department_list". The default is to search all departments.

name

Required. The name of the person to search for.

include_faculty

This a Boolean of whether or not to include faculty in the search results. The default is the value of the "include_faculty" attribute.

include_staff

This a Boolean of whether or not to include staff in the search results. The default is the value of the "include_staff" attribute.

include_students

This a Boolean of whether or not to include students in the search results. The default is the value of the "include_students" attribute.

DIAGNOSTICS

This module will throw WWW::USF::Directory::Exception objects on errors as well as any upstream exception objects like Net::SAJAX::Exception. This means that all method return values are guaranteed to be correct. Please read the relevant exception classes to find out what objects will be thrown.

DEPENDENCIES

AUTHOR

Douglas Christopher Wilson, <doug at somethingdoug.com>

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There are no intended limitations, and so if you find a feature in the USF directory that is not implemented here, please let me know.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-usf-directory at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-USF-Directory. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc WWW::USF::Directory

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Douglas Christopher Wilson, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

  • the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or

  • the Artistic License version 2.0.