| Name : perl-WebService-Nextbus-Agency
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| Version : 0.12
| Vendor : obs://build_opensuse_org/devel:languages:perl
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| Release : lp155.7.1
| Date : 2023-07-20 17:51:41
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| Group : Development/Libraries/Perl
| Source RPM : perl-WebService-Nextbus-Agency-0.12-lp155.7.1.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.03 MB
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| Packager : https://www_suse_com/
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| Summary : Superclass for data structures designed for Nextbus website (www.nextbus.com)
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Description :
WebService::Nextbus::Agency implements a basic data structure for storing
and retrieving information on the various agencies monitored by the Nextbus
website (www.nextbus.com). Nextbus provides a GPS system for predicting the
arrival times of transit vehicles. In order to screen scrape the website
effectively, one must be familiar with the GET arguments used by the site.
This module provides the data structure for storing this info once it has
been determined for a particular transit agency.
The the /SYNOPSIS manpage indicates how the object can be used to retrieve
the GET argument that the website requires for returning GPS information
for a particular stop on a particular route of the sf-muni agency. There
are basically two methods: determine the relevant GET arguments by screen
scraping the Nextbus website using the WebService::Nextbus manpage, or load
a prepared data structure from a helper subclass.
So far, only the the WebService::Nextbus::Agency::SFMUNI manpage subclass
has been implemented. With the screen scraping of WebService::Nextbus
available, however, it should be simple to create more helper subclasses by
running WebService::Nextbus->buildAgency for the agency of choice and then
using Storable to serialize the resulting routes tree for retrieval by the
new helper subclass.
Once the proper GET code has been retrieved, a web useragent can use the
argument to build a URL for the desired information. This useragent
function will probably eventually be incorporated into the
WebService::Nextbus manpage, which is already a the LWP::UserAgent manpage.
The entire functionality of this module will eventually be made obsolete by
the anticipated development of an official WebService (W3C standard) by the
Nextbus team. However, this is useful in the interim, and if Nextbus ends
up charging for their service, then this will continue to be developed.
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