Net::Amazon::Request(3)

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

SYNOPSIS
    my $req = Net::Amazon::Request::XXX->new(
                     [ type  => 'heavy', ]
                     [ 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", "Net::Amazon::Request::Wishlist" 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 "heavy", but can be set to "lite" if no reviews etc. on a product are wanted.

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"".

SEE ALSO

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.