NAME

WWW::Facebook::API::Simple - 'Simpler' Facebook API implementation

VERSION

This document describes WWW::Facebook::API::Simple version 0.2.0

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::Facebook::API::Simple;

my $client = WWW::Facebook::API::Simple->new(
    desktop => 1,
    throw_errors => 1,
    parse_response => 1, # uses XML::Simple if set to 1
);

# Session initialization
my $token = $client->auth->create_token;

# prompts for login credentials from STDIN
$client->login->login( $token );
$client->auth->get_session( auth_token => $token );

# Dump XML data returned
use Data::Dumper;
my @friends = @{ $client->friends->get };
print Dumper $client->friends->are_friends(
    uids1 => [@friends[0,1,2,3]],
    uids2 => [@friends[4,5,6,7]],
);

my $unread_pokes = $client->notifications->get->{pokes}->[0]->{unread}->[0];
print "You have $unread_pokes unread poke(s).";

my @users
    = @{ $client->users->get_info( uids => \@friends, fields => ['quotes'] ) };
print "Number of friends:".@users."\n";

# Get number of quotes by derefrencing, and then removing the null items (hash
# refs)
my @quotes = grep !ref, map { @{$_->{'quotes'}} } @users;
print "Number of quotes: ".@quotes."\n";
print "Random quote: ".$quotes[int rand @quotes]."\n";

$client->auth->logout;

DESCRIPTION

A simpler interface to deal with the XML responses of the Facebook API. Basically, not as much typing to get at the information returned by the server.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

See WWW::Facebook::API.

new

Returns a new instance of this class.

base

The WWW::Facebook::API::Base object to use to make calls to the REST server.

DIAGNOSTICS

The errors that are thrown would most likely be from WWW::Facebook::API::Base or from DEPENDENCIES, so look there first.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

WWW::Facebook::API::Simple requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

See WWW::Facebook::API

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-facebook-api-rest-client@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

David Romano <unobe@cpan.org>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, David Romano <unobe@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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