HTTP::Link3pm

new

Return a new Web Link as string

    my $link = HTTP::Link->new('/TheBook/Chapter/2',
        relation => 'next',
        title => 'next chapter',
    );
    # Result:
    # </TheBook/Chapter/2>; rel="next"; title="next chapter"

Arguments:

Parameters for %options:

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"relation"

Possible relation types are: alternate, appendix, bookmark, chapter, contents, copyright, current, describedby, edit, edit-media, enclosure, first, glossary, help, hub, index, last, latest-version, license, next, next-archive, payment, prev, predecessor-version, previous, prev-archive, related, replies, section, self, service, start, stylesheet, subsection, successor-version, up, version-history, via, working-copy, working-copy-of and others (see IANA registry)

•

"extension"

An extension for a relation type.

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"anchor"

An anchor for the context IRI.

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"hreflang"

A hint indicating what the language of the destination's content is

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"media"

Intended destination medium, like in a CSS media query.

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"title"

A human-readable label. This will be encoded with MIME::EcoEncode.

•

"type"

A hint indication the most possible MIME type of the destination's content.

rel

Shortcut method for "new" with a different signature:

    HTTP::Link->rel('/TheBook/Chapter/2',
        start => '/TheBook/Chapter/0'
    );
    # same as
    HTTP::Link->new('/TheBook/Chapter/2',
        relation => 'start',
        extension => '/TheBook/Chapter/0',
    );

Arguments:

•

$iri

See "new"

•

$relation

Will appended to %options by " relation =" $relation >>

•

$extension

Will appended to %options by " extension =" $extension >>

•

%options

See "new"

multi

When more than one link should be provides, this method is useful. It accepts a hash or a HashRef with a mapping of IRIs to options.

    HTTP::Link->multi(
        '/TheBook/Chapter/2' => {
            relation => 'previous'
        },
        '/TheBook/Chapter/4' => {
            relation => 'next'
        },
    );
    # Result:
    # </TheBook/Chapter/2>; rel="previous", </TheBook/Chapter/4>; rel="next"

parse

Parses a Link-header field a returns all founded links as a list of HashRefs.

    my @links = HTTP::Link->parse(<<EOT);
    </TheBook/Chapter/2>; rel="previous", </TheBook/Chapter/4>; rel="next"
    EOT
    # Result:
    @links = ({
        iri => '/TheBook/Chapter/2',
        relation => 'previous'
    },{
        iri => '/TheBook/Chapter/4',
        relation => 'next'
    });

parse_hash

Parses a Link-header field a returns all founded links as a HashRef with IRIs as key:

    my %links = HTTP::Link->parse_hash(<<EOT);
    </TheBook/Chapter/2>; rel="previous", </TheBook/Chapter/4>; rel="next"
    EOT
    # Result:
    %links = (
        '/TheBook/Chapter/2' => {
            relation => 'previous'
        },
        '/TheBook/Chapter/4' => {
            relation => 'next'
        }
    );

httplink_new

Wrapper for "HTTP::Link->""new"

httplink_rel

Wrapper for "HTTP::Link->""rel"

httplink_multi

Wrapper for "HTTP::Link->""multi"

httplink_parse

Wrapper for "HTTP::Link->""parse"

httplink_parse_hash

Wrapper for "HTTP::Link->""parse_hash"