NAME
BZ::Client - A client for the Bugzilla web services API.
VERSION
version 1.07
SYNOPSIS
my $client = BZ::Client->new( url => $url,
user => $user,
password => $password,
autologin => 0
);
$client->login();CLASS METHODS
This section lists the class methods of BZ::Client.
new
my $client = BZ::Client->new( url => $url,
user => $user,
password => $password );
my $client = BZ::Client->new( url => $url,
api_key => $api_key );The new method constructs a new instance of BZ::Client. Whenever you want to connect to the Bugzilla server, you must first create a Bugzilla client. The methods input is a hash of parameters.
For debugging, you can pass in a subref named logger which will be fed debugging information as the client works. Also the logDirectory option is a directory where the raw http content will be dumped.
- url
-
The Bugzilla servers URL, for example
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/. - api_key
-
API keys were introduced in 5.0.
You can set up an API key by using the 'API Key' tab in the Preferences pages in your Bugzilla install.
- user
-
The user name to use when logging in to the Bugzilla server. Typically, this will be your email address.
- password
-
The password to use when logging in to the Bugzilla server.
- autologin
-
If set to 1 (true), will try to log in (if not already logged in) when the first API call is made. This is default.
If set to 0, will try APi calls without logging in. You can still call $client->login() to log in manually.
Note: once you're logged in, you'll stay that way until you call logout
- restrictlogin
-
If set to 1 (true), will ask Bugzilla to restrict logins to your IP only. Generally this is a good idea, but may caused problems if you are using a loadbalanced forward proxy.
Default: 0
INSTANCE METHODS
This section lists the methods, which an instance of BZ::Client can perform.
url
my $url = $client->url();
$client->url( $url );Returns or sets the Bugzilla servers URL.
user
my $user = $client->user();
$client->user( $user );Returns or sets the user name to use when logging in to the Bugzilla server. Typically, this will be your email address.
password
my $password = $client->password();
$client->password( $password );Returns or sets the password to use when logging in to the Bugzilla server.
autologin
If login is automatically called, or not.
login
Used to login to the Bugzilla server. By default, there is no need to call this method explicitly: It is done automatically, whenever required.
If autologin is set to 0, call this to log in.
is_logged_in
Returns 1 if logged in, otherwise 0
logout
Deletes local cookies and calls bugzilla's logout function
logger
Sets or gets the logging function. Argument is a coderef. Returns undef if none.
my $logger = $client->logger();
$client->logger(
sub {
my ($level, $msg) = @_;
print STDERR "$level $message\n";
return 1
});Also can be set via new(), e.g.
$client = BZ::Client->new( logger => sub { },
url => $url
user => $user,
password => $password );log
$client->log( $level, $message );Sends log messages to whatever is loaded via logger.
api_call
my $response = $client->api_call( $methodName, $params );Used by subclasses of BZ::Client::API to invoke methods of the Bugzilla API. Takes a method name and a hash ref of parameters as input. Returns a hash ref of named result objects.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
Dean Hamstead <dean@bytefoundry.com.au>
Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedmann@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Dean Hamstad.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.