User:AnomieBOT/source/AnomieBOT/API/Iterator.pm/doc

NAME

AnomieBOT::API::Iterator - AnomieBOT API iterator class

SYNOPSIS

 use AnomieBOT::API;
 
 my $api = AnomieBOT::API->new('/path/to/config_file', 1);
 $api->login();
 my $iter = $api->iterator(list=>'allpages', apnamespace=>0, aplimit=>10);
 while(my $res = $iter->next){
     # Do stuff
 }

DESCRIPTION

AnomieBOT::API is a class implementing various functions needed by a MediaWiki bot. This class represents an iterator over a result set.

METHODS

$iter->cur: This returns the current result page, or undef if there is no current result.; Note that no API query is done on creation, and thus no result object is current. $iter->next must be called at least once before this function is useful.
$iter->next: This moves the pointer to the next result and returns it, performing API queries as necessary.; The return object is normally a hashref representing one page object, with an additional property _ok_ set to a true value. If _ok_ is false, the returned hashref is instead the error object as returned by $api->query(). Calling $iter->next again after an error will retry the API query, which may or may not succeed.; When no more results are available, undef is returned.

COPYRIGHT

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