NAME

VUser::Google::ApiProtocol - Base class for implementation of the Google APIs

SYNOPSIS

This class is not meant to be used directly. Instead use VUser::Google::ApiProtocol::V2_0.

DESCRIPTION

MEMBERS

These are the members of the ApiProtocol class. You get and set the values by using the method of the same name. For example:

 # Get the domain from the ApiProtocol object
 my $domain = $google->domain;
 
 # Set the domain
 $google->domain('myappsdomain.com');

Most of the member can be set when the object is created with new().

 my $google = VUser::ApiProtocol->new(
     domain => 'myappsdomain.com'
 );

Note: VUser::Google::ApiProtocol is not meant to be used directly. Please see the version specific subclasses, such as VUser::Google::ApiProtocol::V2_0, to create a usable object.

Read-write Members

admin

The administrative user. This user must have be set as an admin in the Google Apps control panel. Also, be sure to log into the Google Apps control panel once with this user to accept all of the legal garbage or you will see intermittent auth errors.

debug

Turn on debugging output.

domain

The Google Apps domain to work on.

password

The plain text password of the admin user.

refresh_token

If set to a true value, Login() will refresh the authentication token even if it's not necessary. =back

Read-only members

authtime

The unix timestamp of the last authentication.

authtoken

The authentication token retrieved from Google on a successful login. The token is only valid for 24 hours.

reply_headers

The HTTP headers of the last reply

reply_content

The HTTP content of the last reply

result

The resulting hash from the last reply data as parsed by XML::Simple

useragent

The user agent VUser::Google::ApiProtocol uses when talking to Google. It is set to the classname/version. For example, VUser::Google::ApiProtocol::V2_0/0.25.

METHODS

new (%defaults)

Create a new ApiProtocol object. Any read-write member may be set in the call to new().

Login

Login to the Google API. Login() takes no parameters. Instead, you must set the domain, admin, and password members, then call Login().

Login() will use the existing authentication token if it exists and hasn't yet timed out. You may force it to do a full re-authentication by setting refresh_token to a true value before calling Login().

IsAuthenticated

Returns true if the object thinks that it has already authenticated and the token hasn't timed out and a false value otherwise.

Note: IsAuthenticated() only knows if there's an authtoken and if it's still fresh. It may be possible for Google to decide that a token is not valid which IsAuthenticated() cannot check.

Request ($method, $url[, $body])

Sends an API request to Google.

$method is the HTTP method to use, e.g. GET, POST, etc. Note: Many of the API calls use different methods. Double check the API docs to make sure you are using the correct method.

$url is the url to use to make the API call. The URLs are defined in the API docs.

$body is the XML specific action. Again, see the API docs for the specific format for each API call. $body is not needed when the method is GET or DELETE.

dprint ($message)

Prints $message to STDERR if debug is set to a true value.

SEE ALSO

XML::Simple

AUTHOR

Randy Smith <perlstalker@vuser.org>

LICENSE

cpanm VUser::Google::Groups

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install VUser::Google::Groups