POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::RSS::Headlines(3)

NAME
POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::RSS::Headlines - A POE::Component::IRC plugin that provides RSS headline retrieval.

SYNOPSIS
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use POE qw(Component::IRC Component::IRC::Plugin::RSS::Headlines);

  my $nickname = 'RSSHead' . $$;
  my $ircname = 'RSSHead the Sailor Bot';
  my $ircserver = 'irc.perl.org';
  my $port = 6667;
  my $channel = '#IRC.pm';
  my $rss_url = 'http://eekeek.org/jerkcity.cgi';

  my $irc = POE::Component::IRC->spawn(
        nick => $nickname,
        server => $ircserver,
        port => $port,
        ircname => $ircname,
        debug => 0,
        plugin_debug => 1,
        options => { trace => 0 },
  ) or die "Oh noooo! $!";

  POE::Session->create(
        package_states => [
                'main' => [ qw(_start irc_001 irc_join irc_rssheadlines_items) ],
        ],
  );

  $poe_kernel->run();
  exit 0;

  sub _start {
    # Create and load our plugin
    $irc->plugin_add( 'RSSHead' =>
        POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::RSS::Headlines->new() );

    $irc->yield( register => 'all' );
    $irc->yield( connect => { } );
    undef;
  }

  sub irc_001 {
    $irc->yield( join => $channel );
    undef;
  }

  sub irc_join {
    my ($kernel,$sender,$channel) = @_[KERNEL,SENDER,ARG1];
    print STDERR "$channel $rss_url\n";
    $kernel->yield( 'get_headline', { url => $rss_url, _channel => $channel } );
    undef;
  }

  sub irc_rssheadlines_items {
    my ($kernel,$sender,$args) = @_[KERNEL,SENDER,ARG0];
    my $channel = delete $args->{_channel};
    $kernel->post( $sender, 'privmsg', $channel, join(' ', @_[ARG1..$#_] ) );
    undef;
  }

DESCRIPTION
POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::RSS::Headlines, is a POE::Component::IRC plugin that provides a mechanism for retrieving RSS headlines from given URLs.

CONSTRUCTOR

"new"
    Creates a new plugin object. Takes the following optional arguments:

      'http_alias', you may provide the alias of an existing POE::Component::Client::HTTP
                    component that the plugin will use instead of spawning it's own;
      'follow_redirects', this argument is passed to PoCoCl::HTTP to inform it how to deal with
                    following redirects, default is 2;

INPUT EVENTS
The plugin registers the following state handler within your session:

"get_headline"
    Takes a hashref as an argument with the following keys:

      'url', the RSS based url to retrieve items for;

    You may pass arbitary key/value pairs, but the keys must be prefixed with an underscore.

OUTPUT
The following irc event is generated with the result of a 'get_headline' command:

"irc_rssheadlines_items"
    Has the following parameters:

      'ARG0', the original hashref that was passed;
      'ARG1' .. $#_, RSS headline item titles;

"irc_rssheadlines_error"
    Has the following parameters:

      'ARG0', the original hashref that was passed;
      'ARG1', the error text;

AUTHOR
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams

LICENSE
Copyright X Chris Williams

This module may be used, modified, and distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Please see the license that came with your Perl distribution for details.

SEE ALSO
POE::Component::IRC