man Socialtext::Resting (3): module for accessing Socialtext REST APIs

SYNOPSIS

use Socialtext::Resting;
my $Rester = Socialtext::Resting->new(
username => $opts{username},
password => $opts{password},
server => $opts{server},
);
$Rester->workspace('wikiname');
$Rester->get_page('my_page');
}

DESCRIPTION

"Socialtext::Resting" is a module designed to allow remote access to the Socialtext REST APIs for use in perl programs.

METHODS

new

    my $Rester = Socialtext::Resting->new(
        username => $opts{username},
        password => $opts{password},
        server   => $opts{server},
    );
    or
    my $Rester = Socialtext::Resting->new(
        user_cookie => $opts{user_cookie},
        server      => $opts{server},
    );

Creates a Socialtext::Resting object for the specified server/user/password, or server/cookie combination.

accept

    $Rester->accept($mime_type);

Sets the HTTP Accept header to ask the server for a specific representation in future requests.

Standard representations: http://www.socialtext.net/st-rest-docs/index.cgi?standard_representations

Common representations:

text/x.socialtext-wiki
text/html
application/json

get_page

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_page('page_name');

Retrieves the content of the specified page. Note that the workspace method needs to be called first to specify which workspace to operate on.

get_page_revision

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_page_revision('page_name', 'revision_id');

Retrieves the content of the specified page revision. Note that the workspace method needs to be called first to specify which workspace to operate on.

get_attachment

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_attachment('attachment_id');

Retrieves the specified attachment from the workspace. Note that the workspace method needs to be called first to specify which workspace to operate on.

put_workspacetag

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->put_workspacetag('tag');

Add the specified tag to the workspace.

put_pagetag

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->put_pagetag('page_name', 'tag');

Add the specified tag to the page.

delete_workspacetag

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->delete_workspacetag('tag');

Delete the specified tag from the workspace.

delete_pagetag

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->delete_pagetag('page_name', 'tag');

Delete the specified tag from the page.

post_attachment

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->post_attachment('page_name',$id,$content,$mime_type);

Attach the file to the specified page

post_comment

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->post_comment( 'page_name', "me too" );

Add a comment to a page.

put_page

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->put_page('page_name',$content);

Save the content as a page in the wiki. $content can either be a string, which is treated as wikitext, or a hash with the following keys:

content: A string which is the page's wiki content.
date: RFC 2616 HTTP Date format string of the time the page was last edited
from: A username of the last editor of the page. If the the user does not exist it will be created, but will not be added to the workspace.

delete_page

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->delete_page('page_name');

Delete the specified page.

name_to_id

    my $id = $Rester->name_to_id($name);
    my $id = Socialtext::Resting::name_to_id($name);

Convert a page name into a page ID. Can be called as a method or as a function.

get_pages

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_pages();

List all pages in the wiki.

get_page_attachments

    $Rester->get_page_attachments($page)

List all the attachments on a page.

get_sheet_cell

    $Rester->get_sheet_cell($page_id, $cellid)

Get the value of a cell in a spreadsheet.

get_revisions

    $Rester->get_revisions($page)

List all the revisions of a page.

get_taghistory

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_taghistory($page)

Get a history, by revision, of all tags for a page.

get_workspace_tags

    $Rester->workspace('foo');
    $Rester->get_workspace_tags()

List all the tags in workspace foo.

get_homepage

Return the page name of the homepage of the current workspace.

get_backlinks

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_backlinks('page_name');

List all backlinks to the specified page

get_frontlinks

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_frontlinks('page_name');

List all 'frontlinks' on the specified page

get_pagetags

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_pagetags('page_name');

List all pagetags on the specified page

get_taggedpages

    $Rester->worksapce('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_taggedpages('tag');

List all the pages that are tagged with 'tag'.

get_tag

    $Rester->workspace('wikiname');
    $Rester->get_tag('tag');

Retrieves the specified tag from the workspace. Note that the workspace method needs to be called first to specify which workspace to operate on.

get_breadcrumbs

    $Rester->get_breadcrumbs('workspace')

Get breadcrumbs for current user in this workspace

get_workspace

    $Rester->get_workspace();

Return the metadata about a particular workspace.

get_workspaces

    $Rester->get_workspaces();

List all workspaces on the server

get_user

    my $userinfo = $Rester->get_user($username);
    print $userinfo->{email_address};

Get information about a username

create_user

    $Rester->create_user( { username => $username,
                            email_address => $email,
                            password => $password } );

Create a new user. Other parameters can be specified, see POD for Socialtext::User. username is optional and will default to the email address, as in most cases username and email_address will be the same.

add_user_to_workspace

    $Rester->add_user_to_workspace( $workspace, { username => $user, 
                                      rolename => $role,
                                      send_confirmation_invitation => 0 || 1,
                                      from_address => $from_email } );

Add a user that already exists to a workspace. rolename defaults to 'member', send_confirmation_invitation defaults to '0'. from_address must refer to a valid existing user, and is only needed if send_confirmation_invitation is set to '1'. If the user is already a member of the workspace, this will reset their role if you specify a role that's different from their current role.

get_users_for_workspace

    my @users = $Rester->get_users_for_workspace( $workspace );
    for ( @users ) { print "$_->{name}, $_->{role}, $->{is_workspace_admin}\n" }

Get a list of users in a workspace, and their roles and admin status.

put_persontag

    $Rester->put_persontag( $person, $tag )

Tag a person.

get_persontags

    $Rester->get_persontags($person);

Retrieves all tags for a person

get_people

    $Rester->get_people();

Retrieves all people.

get_person

    $Rester->get_person();

Retrieves a person.

get_signals

    $Rester->get_signals();
    $Rester->get_signals(group_id => 42);
    $Rester->get_signals(account_id => 2);

Retrieves the list of signals.

Optional arguments are passed as query paramaters.

post_signal

    $Rester->post_signal('O HAI');
    $Rester->post_signal('O HAI', group_id => 42);
    $Rester->post_signal('O HAI', group_ids => [2,3,4]);
    $Rester->post_signal('O HAI', account_id => 42);
    $Rester->post_signal('O HAI', account_ids => [2,3,4]);
    $Rester->post_signal('O HAI', in_reply_to => { signal_id => 142 });

Posts a signal.

Optional "account_ids" and "group_ids" arguments for targeting the signal.

Optional "in_reply_to_id" for specifying a signal_id this signal is in reply to.

Optional "annotations" to annotate the signal. "annotations" should be an array ref containing hashrefs that have one key (the annotation type) and a value that is a hashref containing key/value pairs.

post_webhook

    $Rester->post_webhook( %args )

Creates a webhook. Args will be encoded as JSON and put up.

get_webhooks

    my $hooks = $Rester->get_webhooks();

Returns an arrayref containing hashrefs of each webhook on the server.

delete_webhook

    $Rester->delete_webhook( id => $webhook_id );

Deletes the specified webhook.

response

    my $resp = $Rester->response;

Return the HTTP::Response object from the last request.

AUTHORS / MAINTAINERS

Shawn Devlin "<[email protected]>"

Kevin Jones "<[email protected]>"

Brandon Noard "<[email protected]>"

CONTRIBUTORS

Luke Closs

Jeremy Stashewsky

Chris Dent

Kirsten Jones

Michele Berg - get_revisions()