Twitter::API::Trait::NormalizeBooleans3pm

Usage

    use Twitter::API;
    my $client = Twitter::API->new_with_traits(
        traits => [ qw/ApiMethods NormalizeBooleans/ ],
        %other_new_options
    );
    my ( $r, $c ) = $client->home_timeline({ trim_user => 1 });
    say $c->http_request->uri;
    # output:
    https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json?trim_user=true

Version

version 1.0006

Overview

Twitter has a strange concept of boolean values. Usually, the API accepts "t", "true", or 1 for true. Sometimes it accepts "f", "false", or 0 for false. But then you have strange cases like the "include_email" parameter used for authorized applications by the "verify_credentials" endpoint. It only accepts "true". Worse, for some boolean values, passing "f", "false", or 0 all work as if you passed "true". For those values, false means not including the parameter at all.

So, this trait attempts to normalize booleans by transforming any perl truthy value to the Twitter API's preference, "true". It transforms falsey values to "false". And then it removes false parameters that the API always treats as true.

You're welcome.

Copyright and license

This software is copyright (c) 2015-2021 by Marc Mims.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.