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NAME

       VM::EC2::Dispatch - Create Perl objects from AWS XML requests

SYNOPSIS

         use VM::EC2;

         VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override('DescribeRegions'=>\&mysub);

         VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override('DescribeTags'=>'My::Type');

         sub mysub {
             my ($parsed_xml_object,$ec2) = @_;
             my $payload = $parsed_xml_object->{regionInfo}
             return My::Type->new($payload,$ec2);
         }

DESCRIPTION

       This class handles turning the XML response to AWS requests into perl objects. Only one
       method is likely to be useful to developers, the add_override() class method. This allows
       you to replace the handlers used to map the response onto objects.

   VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override($request_name => \&sub)
   VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override($request_name => 'Class::Name')
   VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override($request_name => 'method_name,arg1,arg2,...')
       Before invoking a VM::EC2 request you wish to customize, call the add_override() method
       with two arguments. The first argument is the name of the request you wish to customize,
       such as "DescribeVolumes". The second argument is either a code reference, a
       VM::EC2::Dispatch method name and arguments (separated by commas), or a class name.

       In the case of a code reference as the second argument, the subroutine you provide will be
       invoked with four arguments consisting of the parsed XML response, the VM::EC2 object, the
       XML namespace string from the request, and the Amazon-assigned request ID. In practice,
       only the first two arguments are useful.

       In the case of a string containing a classname, the class will be loaded if it needs to
       be, and then its new() method invoked as follows:

         Your::Class->new($parsed_xml,$ec2,$xmlns,$requestid)

       Your new() method should return one or more objects. It is suggested that you subclass
       VM::EC2::Generic and use the inherited new() method to store the parsed XML and EC2
       object. See the code for VM::EC2::AvailabilityRegion for a simple template.

       If the second argument is neither a code reference nor a classname, it will be treated as
       a VM::EC2::Dispatch method name and its arguments, separated by commas. The method will be
       invoked as follows:

        $dispatch->$method_name($raw_xml,$ec2,$arg1,$arg2,$arg3,...)

       There are two methods currently defined for this purpose, boolean(), and fetch_items(),
       which handle the preprocessing of several common XML representations of EC2 data. Note
       that in this form, the RAW XML is passed in, not the parsed data structure.

       The parsed XML response is generated by the XML::Simple module using these options:

         $parser = XML::Simple->new(ForceArray    => ['item', 'member'],
                                    KeyAttr       => ['key'],
                                    SuppressEmpty => undef);
         $parsed = $parser->XMLin($raw_xml)

       In general, this will give you a hash of hashes. Any tag named 'item' or 'member' will be
       forced to point to an array reference, and any tag named "key" will be flattened as
       described in the XML::Simple documentation.

       A simple way to examine the raw parsed XML is to invoke any VM::EC2::Object's as_string
       method:

        my ($i) = $ec2->describe_instances;
        print $i->as_string;

       This will give you a Data::Dumper representation of the XML after it has been parsed.

       Look at the data structure "ObjectRegistration" in the source code for this module to see
       many examples of response to object mapping.

OBJECT CREATION METHODS

       The following methods perform simple pre-processing of the parsed XML (a hash of hashes)
       before passing the modified data structure to the designated object class. They are used
       as the second argument to add_override()

   $bool = $dispatch->boolean($raw_xml,$ec2,$tag)
       This is used for XML responses like this:

        <DeleteVolumeResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-05-15/">
           <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId>
           <return>true</return>
        </DeleteVolumeResponse>

       It looks inside the structure for the tag named $tag ("return" if not provided), and
       returns a true value if the contents equals "true".

       Pass it to add_override() like this:

         VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override(DeleteVolume => 'boolean,return';

       or, since "return" is the default tag:

         VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override(DeleteVolume => 'boolean';

   @list = $dispatch->elb_member_list($raw_xml,$ec2,$tag)
       This is used for XML responses from the ELB API such as this:

        <DisableAvailabilityZonesForLoadBalancerResponse xmlns="http://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-11-15/">
          <DisableAvailabilityZonesForLoadBalancerResult>
            <AvailabilityZones>
              <member>us-west-2a</member>
              <member>us-west-2b</member>
            </AvailabilityZones>
          </DisableAvailabilityZonesForLoadBalancerResult>
          <ResponseMetadata>
            <RequestId>02eadcfc-fc38-11e1-a1bf-9de31EXAMPLE</RequestId>
          </ResponseMetadata>
        </DisableAvailabilityZonesForLoadBalancerResponse>

       It looks inside the Result structure for the tag named $tag and returns the list wrapped
       in member elements.  In this case the tag is 'AvailabilityZones' and the return value
       would be: ( 'us-west-2a', 'us-west-2b' )

       If $embedded_tag is passed, then it is used for XML responses such as this, where the
       member list has an embedded tag:

        <RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancerResponse xmlns="http://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-11-15/">
          <RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancerResult>
            <Instances>
              <member>
                <InstanceId>i-12345678</InstanceId>
              </member>
              <member>
                <InstanceId>i-90abcdef</InstanceId>
              </member>
            </Instances>
          </RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancerResult>
          <ResponseMetadata>
            <RequestId>f4f12596-fc3b-11e1-be5a-f71ecEXAMPLE</RequestId>
          </ResponseMetadata>
        </RegisterInstancesWithLoadBalancerResponse>

       It looks inside the Result structure for the tag named $tag and returns the list wrapped
       in a member element plus the embedded tag.  In this case the tag is 'Instances', the
       embedded tag is 'InstanceId' and the return value would be: ( 'i-12345678', 'i-90abcdef' )

   fetch_items($raw_xml,$ec2,$container_tag,$object_class,$nokey)
       @objects = $dispatch->fetch_items($raw_xml,$ec2,$container_tag,$object_class,$nokey)

       This is used for XML responses like this:

        <DescribeKeyPairsResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-05-15/">
           <requestId>59dbff89-35bd-4eac-99ed-be587EXAMPLE</requestId>
           <keySet>
             <item>
                <keyName>gsg-keypair</keyName>
                <keyFingerprint>
                1f:51:ae:28:bf:89:e9:d8:1f:25:5d:37:2d:7d:b8:ca:9f:f5:f1:6f
                </keyFingerprint>
             </item>
             <item>
                <keyName>default-keypair</keyName>
                <keyFingerprint>
                0a:93:bb:e8:c2:89:e9:d8:1f:42:5d:37:1d:8d:b8:0a:88:f1:f1:1a
                </keyFingerprint>
             </item>
          </keySet>
        </DescribeKeyPairsResponse>

       It looks inside the structure for the tag named $container_tag, pulls out the items that
       are stored under <item> and then passes the parsed contents to $object_class->new(). The
       optional $nokey argument is used to suppress XML::Simple's default flattening behavior
       turning tags named "key" into hash keys.

       Pass it to add_override() like this:

         VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override(DescribeVolumes => 'fetch_items,volumeSet,VM::EC2::Volume')

   @objects = $dispatch->fetch_members($raw_xml,$ec2,$container_tag,$object_class,$nokey)
       Used for XML responses from ELB API calls which contain a key that is the name of the API
       call with 'Result' appended.  All these XML responses contain 'member' as the item
       delimter instead of 'item'

   @objects =
       $dispatch->fetch_items_iterator($raw_xml,$ec2,$container_tag,$object_class,$token_name)
       This is used for requests that have a -max_results argument. In this case, the response
       will have a nextToken field, which can be used to fetch the "next page" of results.

       The $token_name is some unique identifying token. It will be turned into two temporary EC2
       instance variables, one named "${token_name}_token", which contains the nextToken value,
       and the other "${token_name}_stop", which flags the caller that no more results will be
       forthcoming.

       This must all be coordinated with the request subroutine. See how
       describe_instance_status() and describe_spot_price_history() do it.

EXAMPLE OF USING OVERRIDE TO SUBCLASS VM::EC2::Volume

       The author decided that a volume object should not be able to delete itself; you disagree
       with that decision. Let's subclass VM::EC2::Volume to add a delete() method.

       First subclass the VM::EC2::Volume class:

        package MyVolume;
        use base 'VM::EC2::Volume';

        sub delete {
           my $self = shift;
           $self->ec2->delete_volume($self);
        }

       Now subclass VM::EC2 to add the appropriate overrides to the new() method:

        package MyEC2;
        use base 'VM::EC2';

        sub new {
          my $class = shift;
          VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override(CreateVolume   =>'MyVolume');
          VM::EC2::Dispatch->add_override(DescribeVolumes=>'fetch_items,volumeSet,MyVolume');
          return $class->SUPER::new(@_);
        }

       Now we can test it out:

        use MyEC2;
        # find all volumes that are "available" and not in-use
        my @vol = $ec2->describe_volumes({status=>'available'});
        for my $vol (@vol) {
           $vol->delete && print "$vol deleted\n"
        }

AUTHOR

       Lincoln Stein <lincoln.stein@gmail.com>.

       Copyright (c) 2011 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

       This package and its accompanying libraries is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (either version 1, or at your option, any
       later version) or the Artistic License 2.0.  Refer to LICENSE for the full license text.
       In addition, please see DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty.

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OBJECT CREATION METHODS

EXAMPLE OF USING OVERRIDE TO SUBCLASS VM::EC2::Volume

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR