NAME

Travel::Status::DE::EFA - unofficial EFA departure monitor

SYNOPSIS

use Travel::Status::DE::EFA;

my $status = Travel::Status::DE::EFA->new(
    efa_url => 'https://efa.vrr.de/vrr/XSLT_DM_REQUEST',
    name => 'Essen Helenenstr'
);

for my $d ($status->results) {
    printf(
        "%s %-8s %-5s %s\n",
        $d->datetime->strftime('%H:%M'),
        $d->platform_name, $d->line, $d->destination
    );
}

VERSION

version 2.00

DESCRIPTION

Travel::Status::DE::EFA is an unofficial interface to EFA-based departure monitors.

It reports all upcoming tram/bus/train departures at a given place.

METHODS

my $status = Travel::Status::DE::EFA->new(%opt)

Requests the departures as specified by opts and returns a new Travel::Status::DE::EFA object. efa_url and name are mandatory. Dies if the wrong opts were passed.

Arguments:

efa_url => url

URL to the EFA service. See efa-m --list for known URLs. If you found a URL not listed there, please notify <derf+efa@finalrewind.org>.

place => place

Name of the place/city

type => address|poi|stop|stopID

Type of the following name. poi means "point of interest". Defaults to stop (stop/station name).

name => name

address / poi / stop name to list departures for.

efa_encoding => encoding

Some EFA servers do not correctly specify their response encoding. If you observe encoding issues, you can manually specify it here. Example: iso-8859-15.

full_routes => 0|1

If true: Request full routes for all departures from the backend. This enables the route_pre, route_post and route_interesting accessors in Travel::Status::DE::EFA::Result(3pm).

proximity_search => 0|1

If true: Show departures for stops in the proximity of the requested place as well.

timeout => seconds

Request timeout, the argument is passed on to LWP::UserAgent(3pm). Default: 10 seconds. Set to 0 or a negative value to disable it.

$status->errstr

In case of an HTTP request or EFA error, returns a string describing it. If none occured, returns undef.

$status->identified_data

Returns a list of the identified values for place and name. For instance, when requesting data for "E", "MartinSTR", identified_data will return ("Essen", "Martinstr.").

$status->lines

Returns a list of Travel::Status::DE::EFA::Line(3pm) objects, each one describing one line servicing the selected station.

$status->name_candidates

Returns a list of name candidates if name is ambiguous. Returns nothing (undef / empty list) otherwise.

$status->place_candidates

Returns a list of place candidates if place is ambiguous. Returns nothing (undef / empty list) otherwise.

$status->results

Returns a list of Travel::Status::DE::EFA::Result(3pm) objects, each one describing one departure.

Travel::Status::DE::EFA::get_efa_urls()

Returns a list of known EFA entry points. Each list element is a hashref with the following elements.

url: service URL as passed to efa_url

name: Name of the entity operating this service

shortname: Short name of the entity

encoding: Server-side encoding override for efa_encoding (optional)

DIAGNOSTICS

None.

DEPENDENCIES

• Class::Accessor(3pm)

• DateTime(3pm)

• LWP::UserAgent(3pm)

• XML::LibXML(3pm)

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Not all features of the web interface are supported.

SEE ALSO

efa-m(1), Travel::Status::DE::EFA::Result(3pm).

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2011-2023 by Birte Kristina Friesel <derf@finalrewind.org>

LICENSE

This module is licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.