NAME

       Net::Amazon::Request - Baseclass for requests to Amazon's web service

SYNOPSIS

           my $req = Net::Amazon::Request::XXX->new(
                            [ type  => 'Large', ]
                            [ page  => $start_page, ]
                            [ mode  => $mode, ]
                            [ offer => 'All', ]
                            [ sort => $sort_type, ]
           );

DESCRIPTION

       Don't use this class directly, use derived classes (like "Net::Amazon::Request::ASIN",
       etc.) instead to specify the type of request and its parameters.

       However, there's a bunch of parameters to the constructor that all request types have in
       common, here they are:

       type
           Defaults to "Large", but can also be set to "Medium", or "Small".

           Large   The "Large" type provides everything in "Medium" as well as music track
                   information, customer reviews, similar products, offers, and accessory data,
                   i.e. the kitchen sink.

           Medium  The "Medium" type provides everything in "Small" as well as sales rank,
                   editorial reviews, and image URLs.

           Small   The "Small" type provies ASIN, product title, creator (author, artist, etc.),
                   product group, URL, and manufacturer.

       mode
           Defaults to "books", but can be set to other catalog values.

       page
           Defaults to 1, but can be set to a different number to start with a different result
           page. Used in conjunction with the "max_pages" parameter of the "Net::Amazon" object.
           "page" is the offset, "max_pages" is the maximum number of pages pulled in starting at
           "page".

       sort
           Defaults to "salesrank", but search results can be sorted in various ways, depending
           on the type of product returned by the search.  Search results may be sorted by the
           following criteria:

           •       Featured Items

           •       Bestselling

           •       Alphabetical (A-Z and Z-A)

           •       Price (High to Low and Low to High)

           •       Publication or Release Date

           •       Manufacturer

           •       Average Customer Review

           •       Artist Name

           Consult Net::Amazon::Request::Sort for details.

       offer
           To receive values for the fields "CollectibleCount", "NumberOfOfferings", "UsedCount",
           specify "offer => "All"".

AUTHOR

       Mike Schilli, <m@perlmeister.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2003 by Mike Schilli <m@perlmeister.com>

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