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NAME
HTTP::Headers::ActionPack - HTTP Action, Adventure and Excitement
VERSION
version 0.09
SYNOPSIS
use HTTP::Headers::ActionPack;
my $pack = HTTP::Headers::ActionPack->new;
my $media_type = $pack->create_header( 'Content-Type' => 'application/xml;charset=UTF-8' );
my $link = $pack->create( 'LinkHeader' => [ '</test/tree>', rel => "up" ] );
# auto-magic header inflation
# for multiple types
$pack->inflate( $http_headers_instance );
$pack->inflate( $http_request_instance );
$pack->inflate( $plack_request_instance );
DESCRIPTION
This is a module to handle the inflation and deflation of complex HTTP header types. In many cases header
values are simple strings, but in some cases they are complex values with a lot of information encoded in
them. The goal of this module is to make the parsing and analysis of these headers as easy as calling
"inflate" on a compatible object (see below for a list).
This top-level class is basically a Factory for creating instances of the other classes in this module.
It contains a number of convenience methods to help make common cases easy to write.
DEFAULT MAPPINGS
This class provides a set of default mappings between HTTP headers and the classes which can inflate
them. Here is the list of default mappings this class provides.
Link HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::LinkList
Content-Type HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::MediaType
Accept HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::MediaTypeList
Accept-Charset HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::PriorityList
Accept-Encoding HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::PriorityList
Accept-Language HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::PriorityList
Date HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::DateHeader
Client-Date HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::DateHeader
Expires HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::DateHeader
Last-Modified HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::DateHeader
If-Unmodified-Since HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::DateHeader
If-Modified-Since HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::DateHeader
WWW-Authenticate HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::WWWAuthenticate
Authentication-Info HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::AuthenticationInfo
Authorization HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::Authorization
NOTE: The 'Client-Date' header is often added by LWP on HTTP::Response objects.
METHODS
"new( ?%mappings )"
The constructor takes an option hash of header-name to class mappings to add too (or override) the
default mappings (see above for details). Each class is expected to have a "new_from_string" method
which can parse the string representation of the given header and return an object.
"mapping"
This returns the set of mappings in this instance.
"classes"
This returns the list of supported classes, which is by default the list of classes included in this
modules, but it also will grab any additionally classes that were specified in the %mappings
parameter to "new" (see above).
"get_content_negotiator"
Returns an instance of HTTP::Headers::ActionPack::ContentNegotiation.
"create( $class_name, $args )"
This method, given a $class_name and $args, will inflate the value using the class found in the
"classes" list. If $args is a string it will call "new_from_string" on the $class_name, but if $args
is an ARRAY ref, it will dereference the ARRAY and pass it to "new".
"create_header( $header_name, $header_value )"
This method, given a $header_name and a $header_value will inflate the value using the class found in
the mappings. If $header_value is a string it will call "new_from_string" on the class mapped to the
$header_name, but if $header_value is an ARRAY ref, it will dereference the ARRAY and pass it to
"new".
"inflate( $http_headers )"
"inflate( $http_request )"
"inflate( $plack_request )"
"inflate( $web_request )"
Given either a HTTP::Headers instance, a HTTP::Request instance, a Plack::Request instance, or a
Web::Request instance, this method will inflate all the relevant headers and store the object in the
same instance.
In theory this should not negatively affect anything since all the header objects overload the
stringification operator, and most often the headers are treated as strings. However, this is not for
certain and care should be taken.
CAVEATS
Plack Compatibility
We have a test in the suite that checks to make sure that any inflated header objects will pass between
HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response objects as well as Plack::Request and Plack::Response objects.
A simple survey of most of the Plack::Handler subclasses shows that most of them will end up properly
stringifying these header objects before sending them out. The notable exceptions were the Apache
handlers.
At the time of this writing, the solution for this would be for you to either stringify these objects
prior to returning your Plack::Response, or to write a simple middleware component that would do that for
you. In future versions we might provide just such a middleware (it would likely inflate the header
objects on the request side as well).
Stringification
As mentioned above, all the header objects overload the stringification operator, so normal usage of them
should just do what you would expect (stringify in a sensible way). However this is not certain and so
care should be taken when passing object headers onto another library that is expecting strings.
AUTHOR
Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>
CONTRIBUTORS
• Andrew Nelson <anelson@cpan.org> • Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> • Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> • Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> • Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Infinity Interactive, Inc..
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
programming language system itself.