NAME

       Net::Twitter::Role::InflateObjects - Inflate Twitter API return values to Moose objects

VERSION

       version 4.01002

SYNOPSIS

         use Net::Twitter;
         my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(traits => [qw/InflateObjects API::Rest/]);

         $nt->credentials($username, $password);

         $r = $nt->friends_timeline;

         $r->[0]->user->name; # return values are objects with read accessors
         $r->[0]->created_at; # dates are inflated to DateTime objects
         $r->[0]->relative_created_at; # "6 minutes ago"

DESCRIPTION

       This role provides inflation of HASH refs, returned by the Twitter API, into Moose objects.  URLs are
       inflated to URI objects.  Dates are inflated to DateTime objects.  Objects that have a "created_at"
       attribute also have a "relative_created_at" method that prints times in the same style as the Twitter web
       interface.

       All HASH members have read accessors, so

         $r->[0]->{user}{screen_name}

       Can be accessed as

         $r->[0]->user->screen_name

CAVEATS

       An accessor is created for each HASH key returned by Twitter.  As Twitter adds new attributes,
       InflateObjects will create accessors for them.  However,
           InflateObjects will also drop accessors if Twitter drops the corresponding HASH element.  So, code
       that relies on HASH element will fail loudly if Twitter drops support for it.  (This may be a feature!)

AUTHOR

       Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2009 Marc Mims

       The Twitter API itself, and the description text used in this module is:

       Copyright (c) 2009 Twitter

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