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NAME

WebService::HipChat

VERSION

version 0.2001

SYNOPSIS

my $hc = WebService::HipChat->new(auth_token => 'abc');
$hc->send_notification('Room42', { color => 'green', message => 'allo' });
# get paged results:
my $res = $hc->get_emoticons;
my @emoticons = @{ $res->{items} };
while ($res = $hc->next($res)) {
push @emoticons, @{ $res->{items} };
}

DESCRIPTION

This module provides bindings for the HipChat API v2. It also provides the command line utility hipchat-send.

METHODS

All methods return a hashref. The $room param can be the id or name of the room. The $user param can be the id, email address, or @mention name of the user. If a resource does not exist for the given parameters, undef is returned.

get_rooms

get_rooms()
get_rooms(query => { 'start-index' => 0, 'max-results' => 100 });

Example response:

{
items => [
{
id => 2,
links => {
},
name => "General Discussion",
},
{
id => 3,
links => {
},
name => "Important Stuff",
},
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/room" },
maxResults => 100,
startIndex => 0,
}

get_room

get_room($room)

Example response:

{
created => "2014-06-25T02:28:04",
guest_access_url => undef,
id => 2,
is_archived => 0,
is_guest_accessible 0,
last_active => "2014-07-19T02:40:55+00:00",
links => {
},
name => "General Discussion",
owner => {
id => 1,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user/1" },
mention_name => "bob",
name => "Bob Williams",
},
participants => [],
privacy => "public",
statistics => {
},
topic => "hipchat commands",
xmpp_jid => "1_general_discussion\@conf.btf.hipchat.com",
}

create_room

create_room({ name => 'monkeys' })

Example response:

{
id => 46,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/room/46" },
}

update_room

update_room($room, {
is_archived => JSON::false,
is_guest_accessible => JSON::false,
name => "Jokes",
owner => { id => 17 },
privacy => "public",
topic => "funny jokes",
});

set_topic

set_topic($room, 'new topic');

delete_room

delete_room($room)

send_notification

send_notification($room, { color => 'green', message => 'allo' });

get_webhooks

get_webhooks($room)
get_webhooks($room, query => { 'start-index' => 0, 'max-results' => 100 });

Example response:

{
items => [
{
event => "room_message",
id => 1,
name => "hook1",
pattern => undef,
},
],
maxResults => 100,
startIndex => 0,
}

get_webhook

get_webhook($room, $webhook_id);

create_webhook

create_webhook($room, {
event => 'room_message',
name => 'hook1',
});

delete_webhook

delete_webhook($room, $webhook_id);

send_private_msg

send_private_msg($user, { message => 'allo' });

send_room_msg

send_room_msg($room, { message => 'allo' });

get_private_history

$hc->get_private_history($user)
$hc->get_private_history($user, query => { 'max-results' => 5 });

Example response:

{
items [
[0] {
date "2014-11-13T10:48:33.322506+00:00",
from {
id 123456,
links {
},
mention_name "Bob",
name "Bob Williams"
},
id "38988c8c-9120-44ce-87c5-6731a7a3b6",
mentions [],
message "heres a message and a link http://www.sun.com/",
type "message"
},
[1] {
date "2014-11-13T10:49:02.377436+00:00",
from {
id 123456,
links {
},
mention_name "Bob",
name "Bob Williams"
},
id "c1f47537-6506-4f46-b820-eaade5adc5",
mentions [],
message "A message",
type "message"
}
],
links {
},
maxResults 5,
startIndex 0
}

get_members

get_members($room);
get_members($room, query => { 'start-index' => 0, 'max-results' => 100 });

Example response:

{
items => [
{
id => 73,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user/73" },
mention_name => "momma",
name => "Yo Momma",
},
{
id => 23,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user/23" },
mention_name => "jackie",
name => "Jackie Chan",
},
],
maxResults => 100,
startIndex => 0,
}

add_member

Adds a user to a room.

add_member($room, $user);

remove_member

Removes a user from a room.

remove_member($room, $user);

get_users

get_users()
get_users(query => { 'start-index' => 0, 'max-results' => 100 });

Example response:

{
items => [
{
id => 1,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user/1" },
mention_name => "magoo",
name => "Matt Wondercookie",
},
{
id => 3,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user/3" },
mention_name => "racer",
name => "Brian Wilson",
},
],
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user" },
maxResults => 100,
startIndex => 0,
}

get_user

get_user($user)

Example response:

{
created => "2014-06-20T03:00:28",
email => 'matt@foo.com',
group => {
id => 1,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/group/1" },
name => "Everyone",
},
id => 1,
is_deleted => 0,
is_group_admin => 1,
is_guest => 0,
last_active => 1405718128,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user/1" },
mention_name => "magoo",
name => "Matt Wondercookie",
presence => {
client => {
version => 98,
},
idle => 3853,
is_online => 1,
show => "away",
},
timezone => "America/New_York",
title => "Hacker",
xmpp_jid => '1_1@chat.hipchat.com',
}

delete_user

delete_user($user)

get_emoticons

get_emoticons()
get_emoticons(query => { 'start-index' => 0, 'max-results' => 100 });

Example response:

{
items => [
{
id => 166,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/emoticon/166" },
shortcut => "dog",
},
],
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/emoticon" },
maxResults => 100,
startIndex => 0,
}

get_emoticon

get_emoticon()

Example response:

{
creator => {
id => 11,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/user/11" },
mention_name => "bob",
name => "Bob Ray",
},
height => 30,
id => 203,
links => { self => "https://hipchat.com/v2/emoticon/203" },
shortcut => "dog",
width => 30,
}

get_room_history

$hc->get_room_history($room)
$hc->get_room_history($room, { 'max-results' => 5 });

Example response:

{
items [
[0] {
date "2014-11-13T10:48:33.322506+00:00",
from {
id 123456,
links {
},
mention_name "Bob",
name "Bob Williams"
},
id "38988c8c-9120-44ce-87c5-6731a7a3b6",
mentions [],
message "heres a message and a link http://www.sun.com/",
type "message"
},
[1] {
date "2014-11-13T10:49:02.377436+00:00",
from {
id 123456,
links {
},
mention_name "Bob",
name "Bob Williams"
},
id "c1f47537-6506-4f46-b820-eaade5adc5",
mentions [],
message "A message",
type "message"
}
],
links {
},
maxResults 2,
startIndex 0
}
$hc->share_link($room, { message => 'msg', link => 'http://www.sun.com' });

share_file

$hc->share_file($destination, { message => 'msg', file => '/tmp/file.png' });

Shares files with $destination, whether that be a room OR a user. If sent to a user, make sure it is their '@' name OR email address. Otherwise we'll think it is a room. For example: '@JohnQPublic' OR 'johnq@public.test instead of 'SomeRoom'

next

next($data)

Returns the next page of data for paginated responses.

Example:

my $res = $hc->get_emoticons;
my @emoticons = @{ $res->{items} };
while ($res = $hc->next($res)) {
push @emoticons, @{ $res->{items} };
}

CONTRIBUTORS

AUTHOR

Naveed Massjouni <naveed@vt.edu>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Naveed Massjouni.

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