NAME

WWW::Ebay::Status -- encapsulate auction status

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

A convenience class for keeping track of the status of one auction,

such as an auction you are selling on www.ebay.com

The status of an auction consists of several yes/no flags.

Each yes/no flag indicates whether a certain operation has been performed on this auction.

The available flags are described below under FLAGS.

BUGS

Please tell the author if you find any.

METHODS

new

Creates and returns a new Status object.

All status flags are 'off'.

new_from_integer

Creates and returns a new Status object,

with all values derived from the given integer.

(Most likely, the integer was obtained by calling as_integer() on another WWW::Ebay::Status object.)

Useful as a Thaw method.

reset

Set all flags to false.

any_local_actions

Consider that this Status object refers to auction X. This method

returns true if any operations have been performed on auction X after

it has ended.

as_text

Returns a human-readable description of all the set flags.

as_integer

Returns an integer representation of the status bits.

Useful as a Freeze method.

FLAGS

These are the yes/no flags that apply to an auction.

They all act as get/set methods:

give an argument to set the value;

give no arguments to get the value.

listed

I.e. this auction has been uploaded to eBay and is underway.

ended

I.e. bidding is closed.

congratulated

I.e. we have sent a "Congratulations, please pay me now" email.

paid

payment_cleared

shipped

received

left_feedback

got_feedback

archived

E.g. all actions are done, don't show this auction any more.

AUTHOR

Martin Thurn <mthurn(at)cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Martin Thurn

         All Rights Reserved