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net::google::code::issue

Net::Google::Code::Issue(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Net::Google::Code::Issue(3pm)

NAME

       Net::Google::Code::Issue - Google Code Issue

SYNOPSIS

	   use Net::Google::Code::Issue;

	   my $issue = Net::Google::Code::Issue->new( project => 'net-google-code' );
	   $issue->load(42);

DESCRIPTION

ATTRIBUTES

       project
	   project name

       email, password
	   user's email and password

       id
       status
       owner
       reporter
       reported
       merged
       stars
       closed
       cc
       summary
       description
       labels
       comments
       attachments

INTERFACE

       load
       parse
       updated
	   the last comment's date.

       create comment, summary, status, owner, cc, labels, files.
       update comment, summary, status, owner, merge_into, cc, labels, blocked_on, files.
       list( q => '', can => '', author => '', id => '', label => '', max_results => '', owner => '', published_min => '', published_max => '',
       updated_min => '', updated_max => '', start_index => '' )
	   google's api way to get/search issues

	   return a list of loaded issues in list context, a ref to the list otherwise.

       load_comments
	   google's api way to get and load comments( no scraping is done here )

       parse_hybrid
	   when $USE_HYBRID is true, we will try to load issue with the google's official api, but as the api is not complete, we still need to do
	   scraping to load something( e.g. attachments ), this method is used to do this.

AUTHOR

       sunnavy	"<sunnavy@bestpractical.com>"

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       Copyright 2008-2010 Best Practical Solutions.

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

perl v5.10.1							    2010-04-28					     Net::Google::Code::Issue(3pm)

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Change file permission by anothere user !

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