NAME

Weather::Bug::Forecast - Simple class interface to a single forecast from the WeatherBug API.

VERSION

This document describes Weather::Bug::Forecast version 0.25

SYNOPSIS

    use Weather::Bug;

    my $wbug = Weather::Bug->new( 'YOURAPIKEYHERE' );
    my $fc = $wbug->get_forecast( 77096 );

    printf( "Forecast for \%s, \%s at \%s, on \%s\n",
            $fc->location()->city(), $fc->location()->state(),
            $fc->date()->hms(), $fc->date->ymd()
    );
    foreach my $f ($fc->forecasts())
    {
        my $hi = $f->high();
        my $lo = $f->low();

        print $f->title(), ":\n",
              ($hi->is_null() ? "" : "\tHigh: $hi\n"), 
              ($lo->is_null() ? "" : "\tLow: $lo\n"),
              $f->prediction(), "\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION

This object encapsulates a single Forecast from the 7-day forecast response from the WeatherBug API. A FullForecast object contains a list of Forecast objects, each of which describes one forecast.

INTERFACE

Accessor Methods

The methods providing access to the location's fields are:

title

String explaining the time period of the forecast.

short_title

A short version of the prediction containing just the most important information.

imageurl

URL of an image characterizing the forecast.

description

Effectively the same information as the title, sometimes abbreviated.

prediction

Text prediction of the weather for the time period.

high

High temperature for the time period.

low

Low temperature for the time period.

Factory Method

Since the object is usually created from an XML repsonse, the class provides factory methods that take a portion of the XML and return a Forecast object.

from_xml

Extract the Forecast information from an aws:forecast node

$bug

the Weather::Bug object

$node

the aws:station XML node

Return a new Weather::Bug::Forecast object

DIAGNOSTICS

None.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Weather::Bug requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Moose, XML::LibXML

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-weather-weatherbug@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

G. Wade Johnson <wade@anomaly.org>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008, G. Wade Johnson <wade@anomaly.org>. All rights reserved.

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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cpanm Weather::Bug

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Weather::Bug