NAME

WWW::Dict::Leo::Org - Interface module to dictionary dict.leo.org

SYNOPSIS

 use WWW::Dict::Leo::Org;
 my $leo = new WWW::Dict::Leo::Org();
 my @matches = $leo->translate($term);

DESCRIPTION

WWW::Dict::Leo::Org is a module which connects to the website dict.leo.org and translates the given term. It returns an array of hashes. Each hash contains a left side and a right side of the result entry.

OPTIONS

new() has several parameters, which can be supplied as a hash.

All parameters are optional.

-Host

The hostname of the dict website to use. For the moment only dict.leo.org is supported, which is also the default - therefore changing the hostname would not make much sense.

-Port

The tcp port to use for connecting, the default is 80, you shouldn't change it.

-UserAgent

The user-agent to send to dict.leo.org site. Currently this is the default:

 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

-Proxy

Fully qualified proxy server. Specify as you would do in the well known environment variable http_proxy, example:

 -Proxy => "http://192.168.1.1:3128"

-ProxyUser -ProxyPass

If your proxy requires authentication, use these parameters to specify the credentials.

-Debug

If enabled (set to 1), prints a lot of debug information to stderr, normally only required for developers or to report bugs (see below).

Parameters to control behavior of dict.leo.org:

-SpellTolerance

Be tolerant to spelling errors.

Default: turned on.

Possible values: on, off.

-Morphology

Provide morphology informations.

Default: standard.

Possible values: standard, none, forcedAll.

-CharTolerance

Allow umlaut alternatives.

Default: relaxed.

Possible values: fuzzy, exact, relaxed.

-Language

Translation direction. Please note that dict.leo.org always translates either to or from german. The following values can be used:

de

Alias for de2en - german to english.

fr

Alias for de2fr - german to french.

es

Alias for de2es - german to espaniol.

en2de

english to german.

fr2de

french to german.

es2de

espaniol to german.

METHODS

translate($term)

Use this method after initialization to connect to dict.leo.org and translate the given term. It returns an array of hashes containing the actual results.

 use WWW::Dict::Leo::Org;
 use Data::Dumper;
 my $leo = new WWW::Dict::Leo::Org();
 my @matches = $leo->translate("test");
 print Dumper(\@matches);

which prints:

 $VAR1 = [
          {
            'data' => [
                        {
                          'left' => 'check',
                          'right' => 'der Test'
                        },
                        {
                          'left' => 'quiz (Amer.)',
                          'right' => 'der Test    [Schule]'
                      ],
            'title' => 'Unmittelbare Treffer'
          },
          {
            'data' => [
                        {
                          'left' => 'to fail a test',
                          'right' => 'einen Test nicht bestehen'
                        },
                        {
                          'left' => 'to test',
                          'right' => 'Tests macheneinen Test machen'
                        }
                      ],
            'title' => 'Verben und Verbzusammensetzungen'
          },
            'data' => [
                        {
                          'left' => 'testing  adj.',
                          'right' => 'im Test'
                        }
                      ],
            'title' => 'Wendungen und Ausdrücke'
          }
        ];

You might take a look at the leo script how to process this data.

maxsize()

Returns the size of the largest returned term (left side).

lines()

Returns the number of translation results.

form()

Returns the submitted form uri.

SEE ALSO

leo

COPYRIGHT

WWW::Dict::Leo::Org - Copyright (c) 2007-2008 by Thomas Linden

http://dict.leo.org/ - Copyright (c) 1995-2008 LEO Dictionary Team.

AUTHOR

Thomas Linden <tlinden@cpan.org>

HOW TO REPORT BUGS

Use rt.cpan.org to report bugs, select the queue for WWW::Dict::Leo::Org.

Please don't forget to add debugging output!

VERSION

1.34

cpanm WWW::Dict::Leo::Org

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Dict::Leo::Org