NAME

WebService::Slack::WebApi - a simple wrapper for Slack Web API

SYNOPSIS

use WebService::Slack::WebApi;

# By default we use the HTTP client library Furl but you can also use any other
# Eg. LWP::UserAgent
my $slack = WebService::Slack::WebApi->new( ua => LWP::UserAgent->new() );

# the token is required unless using $slack->oauth->access
my $slack = WebService::Slack::WebApi->new(token => 'access token');

# getting channel's descriptions
my $channels = $slack->conversations->list;

# posting message to specified channel and getting message description
my $posted_message = $slack->chat->post_message(
    channel  => 'channel id', # required
    text     => 'hoge',       # required (not required if 'attachments' argument exists)
    username => 'fuga',       # optional
    # other optional parameters...
);

DESCRIPTION

WebService::Slack::WebApi is a simple wrapper for Slack Web API (https://api.slack.com/web).

Options

You can set some options by giving opt parameter to new method. All values of opt are given to Furl#new.

WebService::Slack::WebApi->new(token => 'access token', opt => {});

User Agent

By default WebService::Slack::WebApi uses the Furl HTTP client. But if your software is already using some other client, e.g. LWP::UserAgent or HTTP::Tiny, you can also use that. Under the hood WebService::Slack::WebApi uses the HTTP client wrapper HTTP::AnyUA.

Use parameter ua to specify the user agent which you have already created.

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( timeout => 10 );
my $slack = WebService::Slack::WebApi->new( ua => $ua );

If you use both parameters ua and opt, WebService::Slack::WebApi will throw an exception. This combination is illegal.

Proxy

opt can contain env_proxy as boolean value . If env_proxy is true then proxy settings are loaded from $ENV{HTTP_PROXY} and $ENV{NO_PROXY} by calling Furl#env_proxy method. See also https://metacpan.org/pod/Furl#furl-env\_proxy.

METHODS

This module provides all methods declared in the API reference (https://api.slack.com/methods).

Basis

WebService::Slack::WebApi::Namespace::method_name corresponds to namespace.methodName in Slack Web API. For example WebService::Slack::WebApi::Chat::post_message corresponds to chat.postMessage. You describe as below to call Chat::post_message method.

my $result = $slack->chat->post_message;

Return value

All methods return HashRef. When you want to know what is contained in HashRef, see the API reference.

The token parameter

The API reference shows chat.update method require 4 parameters: token, ts, channel and text. When using this module token parameter is added implicitly except using oauth.access method. So you pass the other 3 parameters to Chat::update method as shown below.

my $result = $slack->chat->update(
    ts      => '1401383885.000061',  # as Str
    channel => 'channel id',
    text    => 'hoge',
);

Optional parameters

Some methods have optional parameters. If a parameter is optional in the API reference, it is also optional in this module.

Not primitive parameters

These parameters are not primitive:

• files.upload.file: string of path to local file
• files.upload.channels: ArrayRef of channel id string

SEE ALSO

• https://api.slack.com/web
• https://api.slack.com/methods

AUTHOR

Mihyaeru/mihyaeru21 mihyaeru21@gmail.com

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Mihyaeru/mihyaeru21

Released under the MIT license.

See LICENSE file.