NAME

Weather::Simple - Simple Wrapper around the Weather::Cached API

SYNOPSIS

  use Data::Dumper;
  use Weather::Simple;
  
  # define parameters for weather search
  my %params = (
		'cache'      => '/tmp/weathercache',
		'partner_id' => 'somepartnerid',
		'license'    => '12345678',
		'place'      => 'Heidelberg',
  );
  
  # instantiate a new weather.com object
  my $simple_weather = Weather::Simple->new(%params);

  my $weather = $simple_weather->get_weather();
  
  print Dumper($weather);
  

DESCRIPTION

Weather::Simple is a very high level wrapper around Weather::Cached.

CONSTRUCTOR

new(hash or hashref)

This constructor takes the same hash or hashref as Weather::Cached does. Please refer to that documentation for further details.

Except from the Weather::Cached' parameters this constructor takes a parameter place which defines the location to search for. It is not possible to provide the location to search to the get_weather() method!

METHODS

get_weather()

This method invokes the Weather::Cached API to fetch some weather information and returns an arrayref containing one or many hashrefs with some high level weather information.

If no weather data is found for a location, it returns undef.

SEE ALSO

See also documentation of Weather::Com and Weather::Cached.

AUTHOR

Thomas Schnuecker, <thomas@schnuecker.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Thomas Schnuecker

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

The data provided by weather.com and made accessible by this OO interface can be used for free under special terms. Please have a look at the application programming guide of weather.com (http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html)