Jifty::Client(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					Jifty::Client(3pm)

NAME

       Jifty::Client - Subclass of WWW::Mechanize with extra Jifty features

DESCRIPTION

       This module is a base for building robots to interact with Jifty applications.  It currently contains much overlapping code with
       "Jifty::Test::WWW::Mechanize", except that it does not inherit from "Test::WWW::Mechanize".

       Expect this code to be refactored in the near future.

METHODS

   new
       Overrides WWW::Mechanize's "new" to automatically give the bot a cookie jar.

   moniker_for ACTION, FIELD1 => VALUE1, FIELD2 => VALUE2
       Finds the moniker of the first action of type ACTION whose "constructor" field FIELD1 is VALUE1, and so on.

   fill_in_action MONIKER, FIELD1 => VALUE1, FIELD2 => VALUE2, ...
       Finds the fields on the current page with the names FIELD1, FIELD2, etc in the MONIKER action, and fills them in.  Returns the HTML::Form
       object of the form that the action is in, or undef if it can't find all the fields.

   action_form MONIKER [ARGUMENTNAMES]
       Returns the form (as an HTML::Form object) corresponding to the given moniker (which also contains inputs for the given argumentnames), and
       also selects it as the current form.  Returns undef if it can't be found.

   action_field_value MONIKER, FIELD
       Finds the fields on the current page with the names FIELD in the action MONIKER, and returns its value, or undef if it can't be found.

   send_action CLASS ARGUMENT => VALUE, [ ... ]
       Sends a request to the server via the webservices API, and returns the Jifty::Result of the action.  "CLASS" specifies the class of the
       action, and all parameters thereafter supply argument keys and values.

       The URI of the page is unchanged after this; this is accomplished by using the "back button" after making the webservice request.

   fragment_request PATH ARGUMENT => VALUE, [ ... ]
       Makes a request for the fragment at PATH, using the webservices API, and returns the string of the result.

   field_error_text MONIKER, FIELD
       Finds the error span on the current page for the name FIELD in the action MONIKER, and returns the text (tags stripped) from it.  (If the
       field can't be found, return undef).

   uri
       WWW::Mechanize has a bug where it returns the wrong value for "uri" after redirect.  This fixes that.  See
       http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=9059

   session
       Returns the server-side Jifty::Web::Session object associated with this Mechanize object.

   continuation [ID]
       Returns the current continuation of the Mechanize object, if any.  Or, given an ID, returns the continuation with that ID.

   current_user
       Returns the Jifty::CurrentUser object or descendant, if any.

SEE ALSO

       Jifty::Test::WWW::Mechanize

LICENSE

       Jifty is Copyright 2005-2010 Best Practical Solutions, LLC.  Jifty is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-04-14							Jifty::Client(3pm)