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NAME

Net::Citadel::ToDo - To Do items for the Net::Citadel Perl extension.

TODO

General

Add a ZIPFLAGS configuration item for dist/zipdist in Makefile.PL?

Add a note in the documentation about the Net::Citadel repository and home page at GitHub? Also include a reference to where it is available at the gitpan CPAN mirror at GitHub?

Add capability to use SSL encrypted communications with the Citadel server, perhaps using IO::Socket::SSL?

Change to using the jame@cpan.org address for Robert James Clay instead of the jame@rocasa.us address?

Constants

There are some numbers being used that are actually constants; change to using Readonly to define them for use in the code, unless there are other standard constants that can be used, like those for the flock operations.

Add a paragraph to the documentation after the CONSTANTS header.

Add a paragraph to the documentation after the 'Results Code' header, perhaps including a link to the online status codes page in Citadel Documentation.

Add a paragraph to the documentation after the 'Room Access' header, perhaps including a link to the online page in Citadel Documentation that refers to them.

A "000" string constant is used quite often by Citadel but is not defined in the module.

There is a set of follow up reply codes noted in the documentation that are not yet in the module.

A NO_SUCH_USER return code is mentioned in the command documentation (for the USER command, for instance,) but the module doesn't currently appear to define it.

Add a link to the online documentation for the status codes: http://www.citadel.org/doku.php?id=documentation:appproto:statuscodes

Functions

There does not seem to an explicit function to close the connection; i.e., close the socket being used to communicate with the server.

Create an internal function to handle LISTING_FOLLOWS return lines from the server? Perhaps called something like _get_listing?

assert_room function

Is the assert_room command coming up with the correct floor information?

Is the assert_room function sending the parameters for the CRE8 command properly? (There is a note in the code indicating an uncertainty about what should be sent.)

retract_room function

In the existing test code for the retract_floor function, there is a comment saying CITADEL BUG; investigate if it an issue with the function itself, an actual issue with Citadel, and/or just something to do with the test script. The documentation for the function itself refers back to Citadel v7.20, so there may not be any issue with it now.

function new

The line just before the 'return $self' line actually has two commands on it, not just one. The second one is just "<$s>;" and that has the comment "# consume banner". That 'banner' is something like the following: "200 <systen name> Citadel server ready." Instead of not doing anything with that, save it somewhere? At least the <system name> part of it? (The first command on that line just establishes the $s variable for that read.) At least, put them on separate lines.

citadel_time function

The current citadel_time function only returns the first two parameters from the TIME command: 1347624956|-14400. The Citadel TIME command itself actually returns a line like this: 200 1347625545|-14400|1|1347537300, with the '200' being the OK code and the rest being the four fields that it returns (which also needs to be documented). So as currently written, the function doesn't return the daylight savings time indication and the actual citadel server start information. Function first needs to be changed to at least return all parameters.

Rewrite the citadel_time function to unpack the parameters that the TIME command returns when it is successful, and then return them to the calling program in a hash? Could also then return the hash with a key named 'error' or 'Error' if it is not successful. Update its POD to reflect the changes.

citadel_echo function

It appears to test if what was sent, was actually received back but it only returns true if it doesn't fail because there is no match. Add an explicit return of the value returned from the ECHO command?

Documentation

Add something like Net::Citadel::Tutorial for examples of the use and configuration of the module?

Testing

Change the names of the test floors and rooms to something like Test Floor and Test Room?

Update the testing for the citadel_time function to at least check the number of parameters returned? Three of the parameters are Unix timestamps; validate those in some way? The other parameter being returned is a Boolean and is used to indicate Daylight Savings Time and should be a '0' or a '1'.

When testing for a floor, it looks for Main Floor: that exists on a default install but may not be on an working system. Make it another configuration item, which if not configured would default to Main Floor?

Separate the testing to: functions that do not require a log in, those that do require a log in, those that are read only, those that write to the server. Or use the separation given in the documentation for the different Sections for the commands?

Since Config::YAML is already a build-depends and is used by the main test script, add a Testing section of some sort to the test.yaml file and check that for the various options for testing instead of just attempting to reach a Citadel server?

Instead of having the debugging 'warning' lines commented out, use a DEBUG environment variable and/or a test.yaml configuration item for it. Same for the 'use Data::Dumper' line itself.

Use Config::YAML::Tiny instead of Config::YAML? (Does not appear to be in Debian as yet, although YAML::Tiny is.)

Use something like Test::MockObject to do at least basic testing of the various functions. And/or Test::TCP?

Testing of the citadel_info function currently just checks the number of information lines returned by the server. That could change over time and different Citadel versions. Make that a testing configuration item?

Do more extensive checking of what is returned by the citadel_info function?

SEE ALSO

L<Net::Citadel>

AUTHOR

Robert James Clay, <jame at rocasa.us>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2013 Robert James Clay, all rights reserved.

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