#A class that encapsulates the Google Apps for Your Domain Provisioning API V1.0 #see http://code.google.com/apis/apps-for-your-domain/google_apps_provisioning_api_v1.0_reference.html #(C) 2006 Johan Reinalda, johan at reinalda dot net # #skeleton generated with h2xs -AXc -n Google::ProvisioningAPI # package VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI::V1_0; use 5.008005; use strict; use warnings; use vars qw($VERSION); use Carp; use LWP::UserAgent qw(:strict); use HTTP::Request qw(:strict); use Encode; use XML::Simple; #I don't see the need for this - JKR #require Exporter; #NOT NEEDED FOR THIS CLASS #our @ISA = qw(Exporter AutoLoader); # Items to export into callers namespace by default. Note: do not export # names by default without a very good reason. Use EXPORT_OK instead. # Do not simply export all your public functions/methods/constants. # This allows declaration use VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI ':all'; # If you do not need this, moving things directly into @EXPORT or @EXPORT_OK # will save memory. #I don't see the need for this - JKR #our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => [ qw( # #) ] ); # #our @EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } ); # #our @EXPORT = qw( # #); our $VERSION = '0.11'; our $APIVersion = '1.0'; #some constants #web agent identification use constant GOOGLEAGENT => "Google_ProvisioningAPI-perl/$VERSION"; #url for Google API token login use constant GOOGLEHOST => 'www.google.com'; use constant GOOGLETOKENURL => 'https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin'; use constant MAXTOKENAGE => 24 * 60 * 60; #24 hours, see API docs #base url to the Google REST API use constant GOOGLEBASEURL => 'https://www.google.com/a/services/v1.0/'; use constant SUCCESSCODE => 'Success(2000)'; use constant FAILURECODE => 'Failure(2001)'; #some size constants use constant MAXNAMELEN => 40; use constant MAXUSERNAMELEN => 30; # Preloaded methods go here. #the constructor sub new { #parse parameters, if any (@_ == 4) || croak 'Constructor takes 3 arguments: domain, admin, adminpassword'; my $object = shift(); my $class = ref($object) || $object; my $self = { #Google related variables domain => shift(), #the Google hosted domain we are accessing admin => shift(), #the account to use when authenticating password => shift(), #the password to use when authenticating refreshtoken => 0, #if set, will force a re-authentication authtoken => '', #the authentication token returned from google authtime => 0, #time when authentication happened; only valid for 24 hours requestcontent => '', #the last http content posted to Google replyheaders => '', #the http headers of the last reply replycontent => '', #the http content of the last reply result => {}, #the resulting hash from the last reply data as parsed by XML::Simple #some other variables debug => 0, #when turned on, will spit out debug info to STDERR #some statistics that are 'read-only' stats => { ctime => time, #object creation time rtime => 0, #time of last request requests => 0, #number of API requests made success => 0, #number of successes logins => 0, #number of authentications performed } }; #return object bless( $self, 'VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI::V1_0'); return $self; } #method used to (re)login to the API, either first time, or as token times out sub Relogin { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint("Relogin called\n"); my $retval = 0; #adjust stats counter $self->{stats}->{logins}++; #clear last results $self->{replyheaders} = $self->{replycontent} = ''; $self->{result} = {}; # Create an LWP object to make the HTTP POST request my $lwp = LWP::UserAgent->new; if(defined($lwp)) { $lwp->agent(GOOGLEAGENT); $lwp->from($self->{admin}.'@'.$self->{domain}); # Submit the request with values for # accountType, Email and Passwd variables. my $response = $lwp->post( GOOGLETOKENURL, [ 'accountType' => 'HOSTED', 'Email' => $self->{admin}.'@'.$self->{domain}, 'Passwd' => $self->{password} ] ); #save reply page $self->{replyheaders} = $response->headers->as_string; $self->{replycontent} = $response->content; if ($response->is_success) { # Extract the authentication token from the response foreach my $line (split/\n/, $response->content) { #$self->dprint( "RECV'd: $line" ); if ($line =~ m/^SID=(.+)$/) { $self->{authtoken} = $1; $self->{authtime} = time; $self->dprint("Token found: $self->{authtoken}\n"); #clear refresh $self->{refreshtoken} = 0; $retval = 1; last; } } } else { $self->dprint("Error in login: " . $response->status_line . "\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "Error in login: " . $response->status_line; } } else { $self->dprint("Error getting lwp object: $!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "Error getting lwp object: $!"; } return $retval; } #check if we are authenticated. If not, try to re-login sub IsAuthenticated { #get object reference my $self = shift(); if( $self->{refreshtoken} or ( (time - $self->{authtime}) > MAXTOKENAGE ) ) { return $self->Relogin(); } #we are still okay! return 1; } #generic request routine that handles most functionality #requires 3 arguments: Type, Action, Body #Type is the object type to action upon. ('Account', 'Alias', 'MailingList') #Action is what needs to be done #Body is the xml specific to the action sub Request { my $retval = 0; #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "***REQUEST***\n"); #clear last results $self->{replyheaders} = $self->{replycontent} = ''; $self->{result} = {}; if(@_ != 3) { $self->{result}->{reason} = 'Invalid number of arguments to request()'; return 0; } #get parameters my($type,$action,$body) = @_; $self->dprint( "Type: $type\nAction: $action\n$body\n"); #keep some stats $self->{stats}->{requests}++; $self->{stats}->{rtime} = time; #check if we are authenticated to google if(!$self->IsAuthenticated()) { $self->dprint( "Error authenticating\n"); return 0; } #standard XML pre and post segments my $pre = <<"EOL"; $type<\/hs:type> $self->{authtoken} $self->{domain} EOL my $post = ''; #create to request body $body = $pre . $body . $post; #properly encode it $body = encode('UTF-8',$body); #save the request content $self->{requestcontent} = $body; # Create an LWP object to make the HTTP POST request over my($ua) = LWP::UserAgent->new; if(!defined($ua)) { $self->dprint("Cannot create LWP::UserAgent object: $!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "Cannot create LWP::UserAgent object in request(): $!"; return $retval; } #and create the request object where are we connecting to my $url = GOOGLEBASEURL . $action; $self->dprint("URL: $url\n"); my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $url); if(!defined($req)) { $self->dprint("Cannot create HTTP::Request object: $!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "Cannot create HTTP::Request object in request(): $!"; return $retval; } #set some user agent variables $ua->agent( GOOGLEAGENT ); $ua->from( '<' . $self->{admin}.'@'.$self->{domain} . '>'); # Submit the request with values for # accountType, Email and Passwd variables. #$req->header('ContentType' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $req->header('Content-Type' => 'application/xml'); $req->header('Accept' => 'application/xml'); $req->header('Content-Lenght' => length($body) ); $req->header('Connection' => 'Keep-Alive'); $req->header('Host' => GOOGLEHOST); #assign the data to the request $req->content($body); #execute the request my $response = $ua->request($req); #save reply page $self->{replyheaders} = $response->headers->as_string; $self->{replycontent} = $response->content; #check result if ($response->is_success) { $self->{stats}->{success}++; $self->dprint( "Success in post:\n"); #delete all namespace elements to keep it simple (ie. remove "hs:") #this avoids the need to use XML::NameSpace my $xml = decode('UTF-8', $response->content); $xml =~ s/hs\://g; $self->dprint( $xml ); #now go parse it using XML::Simple $self->{result} = XMLin($xml,ForceArray => 0); #include Data::Dumper above if you want to use this line: #$self->dprint( Dumper($self->{result}) ); #see if this was a successful call if( defined($self->{result}->{status}) and $self->{result}->{status} eq SUCCESSCODE ) { $self->dprint("Google API success!"); $retval = 1; } else { $self->dprint("Google API failure!"); if(defined($self->{result}->{reason})) { $@ = "Google API failure: $self->{result}->{status} - $self->{result}->{reason}"; } else { $@ = "Google API failure: reason not found!"; $self->{result}->{reason} = "Google API failure: reason not found!"; } } } else { $self->dprint( "Error in post: " . $response->status_line . "\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "Error in http post: " . $response->status_line; } #show full response for now #$self->dprint( "Headers:\n" . $response->headers->as_string); #foreach my $line (split/\n/, $response->content) { # $self->dprint( "RECV'd: $line\n"); #} return $retval; } ###################################### ### these are the actual API calls ### ### See the Google docs for more ### ###################################### ### HOSTED ACCOUNT routines ### sub CreateAccountEmail { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "CreateAccount called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ < 4) { $self->dprint( "CreateAccountEmail method requires at least 4 arguments!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "CreateAccountEmail method requires at least 4 arguments!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $userName = shift(); my $firstName = shift(); my $lastName = shift(); my $password = shift(); my $quota = shift() if (@_); #this one is optional my $body = <<"EOL"; $firstName $lastName $password $userName EOL if(defined($quota)) { $body .= "\t\t$quota<\/hs:quota>\n"; } #add the final end-of-section tab $body .= "\t<\/hs:CreateSection>\n"; return $self->Request('Account','Create/Account/Email',$body); } #NOTE: this API call may be discontinued! sub CreateAccount { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "CreateAccount called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 4) { $self->dprint( "CreateAccount method requires 4 arguments!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "CreateAccount method requires 4 arguments!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $userName = shift(); my $firstName = shift(); my $lastName = shift(); my $password = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; $firstName $lastName $password $userName EOL return $self->Request('Account','Create/Account',$body); } sub UpdateAccount { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "UpdateAccount called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 4) { $self->dprint( "UpdateAccount method requires 4 arguments!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "UpdateAccount method requires 4 arguments!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $userName = shift(); my $firstName = shift(); my $lastName = shift(); my $password = shift(); #build request body my $body = <<"EOL"; userName $userName EOL if(defined($firstName)) { $body .= "\t\t$firstName<\/hs:firstName>\n"; } if(defined($lastName)) { $body .= "\t\t$lastName<\/hs:lastName>\n"; } if(defined($password)) { $body .= "\t\t$password<\/hs:password>\n"; } #add the final end-of-section tab $body .= "\t<\/hs:UpdateSection>\n"; return $self->Request('Account','Update/Account',$body); } sub UpdateAccountEmail { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "UpdateAccountEmail called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "UpdateAccount method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "CreateAccount method requires 1 argument!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $userName = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; userName $userName 1 EOL return $self->Request('Account','Update/Account/Email',$body); } sub UpdateAccountStatus { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "UpdateAccountStatus called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 2) { $self->dprint( "UpdateAccount method requires 2 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "CreateAccount method requires 2 arguments!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $userName = shift(); my $status = shift(); if($status ne 'locked' and $status ne 'unlocked') { $self->dprint( "Error: status invalid!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = 'Invalid status'; return 0; } my $body = <<"EOL"; userName $userName $status EOL return $self->Request('Account','Update/Account/Status',$body); } sub RetrieveAccount { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "RetrieveAccount called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "RetrieveAccount method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "RetrieveAccount method requires 1 argument!"; return 0; } #get argument my $userName = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; userName $userName EOL return $self->Request('Account','Retrieve/Account',$body); } sub DeleteAccount { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "DeleteAccount called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "DeleteAccount method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "DeleteAccount method requires 1 argument!"; return 0; } #get argument my $userName = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; userName $userName EOL return $self->Request('Account','Delete/Account',$body); } sub RenameAccount { #This is derived from the Python sample code: #----- #Username change. Note that this feature must be explicitly # enabled by the domain administrator, and is not enabled by # default. # # Args: # oldname: user to rename # newname: new username to set for the user # alias: if 1, create an alias of oldname for newname #----- #Ie. this may not work yet - JKR 20061204 #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "RenameAccount called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 3) { $self->dprint( "RenameAccount method requires 3 arguments!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "RenameAccount method requires 3 arguments!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $oldName = shift(); my $newName = shift(); my $alias = shift(); #check format of alias; default to 0 $alias = lc($alias); if($alias ne '1') { $alias = '0'; } #build request format my $body = <<"EOL"; userName $oldName $newName $alias EOL return $self->Request('Account','Update/Account/Username',$body); } ### ALIAS routines ### sub CreateAlias { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "CreateAlias called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 2) { $self->dprint( "CreateAlias method requires 2 arguments!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "CreateAlias method requires 2 arguments!"; return 0; } #get argument my $userName = shift(); my $alias = shift(); #create the command format my $body = <<"EOL"; $userName $alias EOL return $self->Request('Alias','Create/Alias',$body); } sub RetrieveAlias { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "RetrieveAlias called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "RetrieveAlias method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "RetrieveAlias method requires 1 argument!"; return 0; } #get argument my $userName = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; aliasName $userName EOL return $self->Request('Alias','Retrieve/Alias',$body); } sub DeleteAlias { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "DeleteAlias called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "DeleteAlias method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "DeleteAlias method requires 1 argument!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $alias = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; aliasName $alias EOL return $self->Request('Alias','Delete/Alias',$body); } ### Mailing List routines sub CreateMailingList { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "CreateMailingList called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "CreateMailingList method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = "CreateMailingList method requires 1 argument!"; return 0; } #get arguments my $mailingListName = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; $mailingListName EOL return $self->Request('MailingList','Create/MailingList',$body); } sub UpdateMailingList { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "UpdateMailingList called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 3) { $self->dprint( "UpdateMailingList method requires 3 arguments!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = 'UpdateMailingList method requires 3 arguments!'; return 0; } #get arguments my $mailingListName = shift(); my $userName = shift(); my $listOperation = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; mailingListName $mailingListName $userName $listOperation EOL return $self->Request('MailingList','Update/MailingList',$body); } sub RetrieveMailingList { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "RetrieveMailingList called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "RetrieveMailingList method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = 'RetrieveMailingList method requires 1 arguments!'; return 0; } #get argument my $mailingListName = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; mailingListName $mailingListName EOL return $self->Request('MailingList','Retrieve/MailingList',$body); } sub DeleteMailingList { #get object reference my $self = shift(); $self->dprint( "DeleteMailingList called\n"); #check remaining arguments if(@_ != 1) { $self->dprint( "DeleteMailingList method requires 1 argument!\n"); $self->{result}->{reason} = 'DeleteMailingList method requires 1 argument!'; return 0; } #get argument my $mailingListName = shift(); my $body = <<"EOL"; mailingListName $mailingListName EOL return $self->Request('MailingList','Delete/MailingList',$body); } ################################################################ # below are various subroutines to access local 'private' data # ################################################################ #the content of the request from and reply from Google API engine sub requestcontent { my $self = shift(); return $self->{requestcontent}; } sub replyheaders { my $self = shift(); return $self->{replyheaders}; } sub replycontent { my $self = shift(); return $self->{replycontent}; } #various access to local variables sub debug { my $self = shift(); $self-> { debug } = shift() if (@_); return $self->{debug}; } #change the admin account sub admin { my $self = shift(); if (@_) { $self-> { admin } = shift(); $self-> { refreshtoken } = 1; } return $self->{admin}; } #password can only be set, not read! sub password { my $self = shift(); if (@_) { $self-> { password } = shift(); #force authentication update on next request $self-> { refreshtoken } = 1; } return ''; } #the following can only be read! sub authtime { my $self = shift(); return $self->{authtime}; } #same for create time sub ctime { my $self = shift(); return $self->{stats}->{ctime}; } #and request time sub rtime { my $self = shift(); return $self->{stats}->{rtime}; } sub requests { my $self = shift(); return $self->{stats}->{requests}; } sub logins { my $self = shift(); return $self->{stats}->{logins}; } sub success { my $self = shift(); return $self->{stats}->{success}; } sub version { my $self = shift(); return $APIVersion; } #several helper routines #print out debugging to STDERR if debug is set sub dprint { my $self = shift(); my($text) = shift if (@_); if( $self->{debug} and defined ($text) ) { print STDERR $text . "\n"; } } 1; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI::V1_0 - Perl module that implements version 1.0 of the Google Apps for Your Domain Provisioning API =head1 SYNOPSIS use VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI; my $google = new VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI($domain,$admin,$password); $google->CreateAccount($userName, $firstName, $lastName, $password); $google->RetrieveAccount($userName); =head1 REQUIREMENTS VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI requires the following modules to be installed: =over =item C =item C =item C =item C =back =head1 DESCRIPTION VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI provides a simple interface to the Google Apps for Your Domain Provisioning API. It uses the C module for the HTTP transport, and the C module for the HTTP request and response. =head2 Examples For a complete description of the meaning of the following methods, see the Google API documentation referenced in the SEE ALSO section. #create the object $google = new Google:ProvisioningAPI($domain,$admin,$password) || die "Cannot create google object"; print 'Module version: ' . $google->VERSION . "\nAPI Version: " . $google->version() . "\n"; #create a hosted account if( $google->CreateAccount( $userName, $firstName, $lastName, $password ) ) { print "Account created!\N"; } #add email services to the account $google->UpdateAccountEmail($userName); #retrieving account data if($google->RetrieveAccount($userName)) { print 'Username: ' . $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{userName} . "\n"; print 'firstName: ' . $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{firstName} . "\n"; print 'lastName: ' . $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{lastName} . "\n"; print 'accountStatus: ' . $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{accountStatus} . "\n"; } #see what the result hash after a request looks like use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($google->{result}); #delete an account $ret = DeleteAccount($userName); #accessing the HTML data as it was received from the Google servers: print $google->replyheaders(); print $google->replycontent(); =head1 CONSTRUCTOR new ( $domain, $admin, $adminpassword ) This is the constructor for a new VUser::Google::ProvisioningAPI object. $domain is the domain name registered with Google Apps For Your Domain, $admin is an account in the above domain that has the right to manage that domain, and $adminpassword is the password for that account. Note that the constructor will NOT attempt to perform the 'ClientLogin' call to the Google Provisioning API (see below). Authentication happens automatically when the first API call is performed. The token will be remembered for the duration of the object, and will be automatically refreshed as needed. If you want to verify that you can get a valid token before performing any operations, follow the constructor with a call to IsAuthenticated() as such: print "Authentication OK\n" unless not $google->IsAuthenticated(); =head1 METHODS Below are all the methods available on the object. For the Google API specific methods, see the Google API documentation for more details. When a request is properly handled by Google's API engine, the webpost to the API succeeds. This results in a valid page being returned. The content of this page then defines whether the request succeeded or not. All pages returing the 'Success(2000)' status code will result in the API method succeeding, and returning a 1. All failures return 0. Please see the section below on how to access the result data, and how to determine the reasons for errors. If the web post fails (as determined by the C method IsSuccess() ), the method returns 0, and the {reason} hash is set to a descriptive error. You can then examine the raw data to get an idea of what went wrong. =head2 Checking Authentication IsAuthenticated() =over will check if the object has been able to authenticate with Google's api engine, and get an authentication ticket. Returns 1 if successful, 0 on failure. To see why it may fail, see the $@ variable, and the $google->{results}->{reason} hash, and parse the returned page (see the 'content' and 'header' variables.) =back =head2 Methods to Create/Retrieve/Delete =head3 'Hosted account' methods CreateAccountEmail( $userName, $firstName, $lastName, $password, $quota ) =over Creates a hosted account with email services in your domains name space. The first 4 arguments are required. The $quota argument is optional. If $quota is given, the tag will be sent with the request, otherwize is will be omitted. See the Google API docs for the API call for more details. =back CreateAccount( $userName, $firstName, $lastName, $password ) =over Creates a hosted account in your domains name space. This account does NOT have email services by default. You need to call UpdateAccountEmail() to add email services. NOTE: this API call may be discontinued! See CreateAccountEmail() for a replacement. =back UpdateAccount( $username, $firstName, $lastName, $password ) =over $username is the mandatory name of the hosted account. The remaining paramaters are optional, and can be set to 'undef' if you do not wish to change them Eg. to change the password on an account, call this as; =back UpdateAccount( $username, undef, undef, 'newpassword' ); =over to change names only, you would call it as such: =back UpdateAccount( $username, 'newfirstname', 'newlastname', undef ); UpdateAccountEmail( $userName ) =over Adds email services to a hosted account created with CreateAccount(). NOTE: this API call may be discontinued! See CreateAccountEmail() for a replacement. =back UpdateAccountStatus( $userName, $status ) =over $status is either 'locked' or 'unlocked' =back RetrieveAccount( $userName ) DeleteAccount( $userName ) RenameAccount( $oldName, $newName, $alias ) =over $alias is either '1' or '0' WARNING: this method is derived from the Python sample code provided by Google: (Ie. this may not work yet) "Username change. Note that this feature must be explicitly enabled by the domain administrator, and is not enabled by default. Args: =over oldname: user to rename newname: new username to set for the user alias: if 1, create an alias of oldname for newname" =back =back =head3 'Alias' methods CreateAlias( $userName, $alias ) RetrieveAlias( $userName ); DeleteAlias( $alias ); =head3 'Mailing List' methods CreateMailingList( $mailingListName ) UpdateMailingList( $mailingListName, $userName, $listOperation ) =over $listOperation is either 'add' or 'remove' =back RetrieveMailingList( $mailingListName ) DeleteMailingList( $mailingListName ) =head2 Methods to set/get variables After creating the object you can get/set the administrator account and set the password with these methods. Note this will cause a re-authentication next time a Google API method is called. admin( $admin ) =over set the administrative user, and will return administator username. =back password( $string ) =over set the password, returns an empty string =back =head2 Miscelleaneous statistics methods There are a few methods to access some statistics data that is collected while the object performing Google API calls. authtime() =over returns the time of last authentication, as generated by the time() function =back ctime() =over returns the create time of the object, as generated by the time() function =back rtime() =over returns the time of the most recent request, as generated by the time() function =back logins() =over returns the number of API logins that have been performed =back requests() =over returns the numbers of API requests that have been submitted to Google =back success() =over returns the numbers of successful api request performed =back And finally, version() =over returns a string with the api version implemented. This is currently '1.0' =back =head1 ACCESSING RESULTING DATA Valid return data from Google is parsed into a hash named 'result', available through the object. In this hash you can find all elements as returned by Google. This hash is produced by XML::Simple. See the Google API documentation in the SEE ALSO section for complete details. Some of the more useful elements you may need to look at are: $google->{result}->{reason} #this typically has the textual reason for a failure $google->{result}->{extendedMessage} #a more extensive description of the failure reason may be here $google->{result}->{result} #typically empty! $google->{result}->{type} #should be same of query type, eg 'Account', 'Alias', 'MailingList' The retrieval section contains data when you are querying. Here is what this section looks like when you call the RetrieveAccount method: $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{firstName} $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{lastName} $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{accountStatus} $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{aliases}->{alias} $google->{result}->{RetrievalSection}->{emailLists}->{emailList} To see the structure of the result hash, use the Data::Dumper module as such: use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($google->{result}); =head1 ACCESSING RAW GOOGLE POST AND RESULT DATA The data from the most recent post to the Google servers is available. You can access it as: print $google->requestcontent(); The most recent received HTML data is stored in two parts, the headers and the content. Both are strings. They can be accessed as such: print $google->replyheaders(); print $google->replycontent(); Note the headers are new-line separated and can easily be parsed: foreach my $headerline ( split/\n/, $g->replyheaders() ) { my ($header, $value) = split/:/, $headerline; } =head1 EXPORT None by default. =head1 SEE ALSO The official Google documentation can be found at http://code.google.com/apis/apps-for-your-domain/google_apps_provisioning_api_v1.0_reference.html For support, see the Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/apps-for-your-domain-apis For additional support specific to this modules, email me at johan at reinalda dot net. =head1 AUTHOR Johan Reinalda, johan at reinalda dot net =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2006 by Johan Reinalda, johan at reinalda dot net This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. If you make useful modification, kindly consider emailing then to me for inclusion in a future version of this module. =cut