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URI-duri-0.003
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NAME

URI::duri - the duri URI scheme

SYNOPSIS

my $uri = URI->new('duri:2012:http://tobyinkster.co.uk/');
say $uri->embedded_uri;

DESCRIPTION

The dated URI scheme is defined in an Internet Draft http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masinter-dated-uri-10. Dated URIs include a date and an embedded URI. They identify the same resource that was identified by the embedded URI at the given date.

This module brings support for the duri URI scheme to the URI framework.

Constructor

The constructor can be called in two forms:

new($string)
new(\%hash)

When called with a string argument, must be a URI string conforming to the dated URI Internet Draft.

If called with a hashref argument, the hash must have a key embedded_uri which is a string or URI object. It may have a key datetime_string which is a string representing a datetime in the format required by the dated URI specification; alternatively it may have a key datetime which is a DateTime or (better) DateTime::Incomplete object; if neither are present, then the current time is used instead.

Methods

The following accessors are provided:

datetime
datetime($object)

Get/set the URI's datetime as a DateTime::Incomplete object.

datetime_string
datetime_string($string)

Get/set the URI's datetime as a literal string.

embedded_uri
embedded_uri($uri)

Get/set the embedded URI as a URI object. (The setter may also be called with a plain string.)

The following methods are inherited from URI and make sense to use:

scheme
scheme($string)

Get/set the URI scheme.

as_string

Get the URI as a string.

as_iri

Get the URI as a Unicode string.

canonical

Get the URI as a canonical string.

secure

Returns false, though the method doesn't make much sense. One URI is no more secure than another; it is protocols that can be secure or insecure.

eq($uri)

Tests if this URI is equal to another.

The following methods are also inherited from URI, but don't make much sense to use: opaque, path, fragment. It generally makes more sense to inspect the embedded URI:

say $duri->embedded_uri->fragment;

BUGS

Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=URI-duri.

SEE ALSO

URI, URI::tdb.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masinter-dated-uri-10.

http://www.perlrdf.org/.

DateTime::Incomplete.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tdb:2012:http://metacpan.org/author/TOBYINK>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster.

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.