package WebService::Audioscrobbler::DataFetcher; use warnings; use strict; use CLASS; use base 'Class::Accessor::Fast'; use Cache::FileCache; use URI; require LWP::Simple; require XML::Simple; =head1 NAME WebService::Audioscrobbler::DataFetcher - Cached data fetching provider =cut our $VERSION = '0.07'; # object accessors CLASS->mk_accessors(qw/base_url cache_root cache/); =head1 SYNOPSIS This is responsible for fetching and caching all data requested from Audioscrobbler WebServices, as recommended by their usage policy. It can actually function as a generic XML-fetcher-and-converter-to-hashrefs and has no limitations regarding being used only for Audioscrobbler WebServices. In the future, it might even became a completely separate module. use WebService::Audioscrobbler::DataFetcher; my $data_fetcher = WebService::Audioscrobbler::DataFetcher->new( "http://www.my-base-url.com/base_dir/" ); # retrieves "http://www.my-base-url.com/base_dir/myown/resource.xml" # and parses it through XML::Simple::XMLin so we get a hashref my $data = $data_fetcher->fetch("myown/resource.xml") =cut =head1 FIELDS =head2 C This is the base URL from where data will be fetched. =head2 C This is the underlying cache object. By default, this will be a L object. =head2 C This is the root directory where the cache will be created. It should only be set as a parameter to C, setting it afterwards won't have any effect. =cut =head1 METHODS =cut =head2 C =head2 C Creates a new object using either the given C<$base_url> or the C<\%fields> hashref. Any of the above fields can be specified. If the C field is undefined, C will be called after object construction. =cut sub new { my $class = shift; my $base_or_params = shift; my $self = $class->SUPER::new( ref $base_or_params eq 'HASH' ? $base_or_params : { base_url => $base_or_params } ); # base_url is mandatory $self->croak("base_url not set") unless defined $self->base_url; # guarantee it's an URI object $self->base_url(URI->new($self->base_url)) unless $self->base_url->isa('URI'); # crate a new cache object, unless we're already given one $self->create_cache unless $self->cache; return $self; } =head2 C Creates a new L object and saves it in the C field. The cache has a daily auto purging turned on and data will expire by default in 3 days, which is reasonable since most of Audioscrobbler data changes at most weekly. The cache root will be as specified by the C field (if it's undefined, L defaults will be used). =cut sub create_cache { my $self = shift; $self->cache( Cache::FileCache->new( { auto_purge_on_set => 1, auto_purge_interval => 86400, # 1 day default_expires_in => 259200, # 3 days cache_root => $self->cache_root } ) ) } =head2 C Actually fetches a XML resource URL. If the resource is not already cached, C is called it's results are then cached. The results are then processed by C so we end up with a nice hashref as our return value. =cut sub fetch { my ($self, $resource) = @_; # build and normalize the URL my $uri = $self->base_url->clone; $uri->path_segments(grep {length} $uri->path_segments, split '/', $resource); # try to fetch a cached copy of the data my $data = $self->cache->get($uri); # not in cache unless (defined $data) { my $resp = $self->retrieve_data($uri); # parse it into a hashref $data = XML::Simple::XMLin($resp); # cache it for future references $self->cache->set($uri, $data); } return $data; } =head2 C Retrieves data from the specified $uri using L and returns it. =cut sub retrieve_data { my ($self, $uri) = @_; # warn "\nRetrieving data from $uri...\n"; my $resp = LWP::Simple::get($uri) or $self->croak("Error while fetching data from '$uri'"); utf8::upgrade($resp); return $resp; } =head2 C Shortcut for C which can be called as a method. =cut sub croak { shift if $_[0]->isa(CLASS); require Carp; Carp::croak(@_); } =head1 AUTHOR Nilson Santos Figueiredo Júnior, C<< >> =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2006-2007 Nilson Santos Figueiredo Júnior, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut 1; # End of WebService::Audioscrobbler::DataFetcher