Atom Perl Reference Documentation

CkAtom

Deprecated To be removed in a future version, and should no longer be used.

Current Version: 10.1.2

Represents an Atom document. The Atom API allows one to download, create and modify Atom documents.

Object Creation

$obj = chilkat::CkAtom->new();

Properties

AbortCurrent

# $boolVal is a boolean
$boolVal = $atom->get_AbortCurrent();

Introduced in version 9.5.0.58

When set to 1, causes the currently running method to abort. Methods that always finish quickly (i.e.have no length file operations or network communications) are not affected. If no method is running, then this property is automatically reset to 0 when the next method is called. When the abort occurs, this property is reset to 0. Both synchronous and asynchronous method calls can be aborted. (A synchronous method call could be aborted by setting this property from a separate thread.)

DebugLogFilePath

# $strVal is a string
# $ckStr is a CkString
$atom->get_DebugLogFilePath($ckStr);
$strVal = $atom->debugLogFilePath();
$atom->put_DebugLogFilePath($strVal);

If set to a file path, this property logs the LastErrorText of each Chilkat method or property call to the specified file. This logging helps identify the context and history of Chilkat calls leading up to any crash or hang, aiding in debugging.

Enabling the VerboseLogging property provides more detailed information. This property is mainly used for debugging rare instances where a Chilkat method call causes a hang or crash, which should generally not happen.

Possible causes of hangs include:

A timeout property set to 0, indicating an infinite timeout.
A hang occurring within an event callback in the application code.
An internal bug in the Chilkat code causing the hang.

More Information and Examples

Example showing how to use DebugLogFilePath.

LastErrorHtml

# $strVal is a string
# $ckStr is a CkString
$atom->get_LastErrorHtml($ckStr);
$strVal = $atom->lastErrorHtml();

Provides HTML-formatted information about the last called method or property. If a method call fails or behaves unexpectedly, check this property for details. Note that information is available regardless of the method call's success.

LastErrorText

# $strVal is a string
# $ckStr is a CkString
$atom->get_LastErrorText($ckStr);
$strVal = $atom->lastErrorText();

Provides plain text information about the last called method or property. If a method call fails or behaves unexpectedly, check this property for details. Note that information is available regardless of the method call's success.

More Information and Examples

Concept of LastErrorText LastErrorText Standard Information

LastErrorXml

# $strVal is a string
# $ckStr is a CkString
$atom->get_LastErrorXml($ckStr);
$strVal = $atom->lastErrorXml();

Provides XML-formatted information about the last called method or property. If a method call fails or behaves unexpectedly, check this property for details. Note that information is available regardless of the method call's success.

LastMethodSuccess

# $boolVal is a boolean
$boolVal = $atom->get_LastMethodSuccess();
$atom->put_LastMethodSuccess($boolVal);

Indicates the success or failure of the most recent method call: 1 means success, 0 means failure. This property remains unchanged by property setters or getters. This method is present to address challenges in checking for null or Nothing returns in certain programming languages.

NumEntries

# $intVal is an integer
$intVal = $atom->get_NumEntries();

Number of entries in the Atom document.

Utf8

# $boolVal is a boolean
$boolVal = $atom->get_Utf8();
$atom->put_Utf8($boolVal);

When set to 1, all "const char *" arguments are interpreted as utf-8 strings. If set to 0 (the default), then "const char *" arguments are interpreted as ANSI strings. Also, when set to 1, and Chilkat method returning a "const char *" is returning the utf-8 representation. If set to 0, all "const char *" return values are ANSI strings.

VerboseLogging

# $boolVal is a boolean
$boolVal = $atom->get_VerboseLogging();
$atom->put_VerboseLogging($boolVal);

If set to 1, then the contents of LastErrorText (or LastErrorXml, or LastErrorHtml) may contain more verbose information. The default value is 0. Verbose logging should only be used for debugging. The potentially large quantity of logged information may adversely affect peformance.

Version

# $strVal is a string
# $ckStr is a CkString
$atom->get_Version($ckStr);
$strVal = $atom->version();

Version of the component/library, such as "10.1.0"

More Information and Examples

How to get the Chilkat version at runtime.

Methods

AddElement

# $tag is a string
# $value is a string
$retInt = $atom->AddElement($tag, $value);

Adds a new element to the Atom document. The tag is a string such as "title", "subtitle", "summary", etc. Returns the index of the element added, or -1 for failure.

AddElementDateStr

# $tag is a string
# $dateTimeStr is a string
$retInt = $atom->AddElementDateStr($tag, $dateTimeStr);

Adds a new date-formatted element to the Atom document. The tag is a string such as "created", "modified", "issued", etc. The dateTimeStr should be an RFC822 formatted date/time string such as "Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:25:32 -0500". Returns the index of the element added, or -1 for failure.

AddElementDt

# $tag is a string
# $dateTime is a CkDateTime
$retInt = $atom->AddElementDt($tag, $dateTime);

Adds a new date-formatted element to the Atom document. The tag is a string such as "created", "modified", "issued", etc. Returns the index of the element added, or -1 for failure.

AddElementHtml

# $tag is a string
# $htmlStr is a string
$retInt = $atom->AddElementHtml($tag, $htmlStr);

Adds a new HTML formatted element to the Atom document. Returns the index of the element added, or -1 for failure.

AddElementXHtml

# $tag is a string
# $xmlStr is a string
$retInt = $atom->AddElementXHtml($tag, $xmlStr);

Adds a new XHTML formatted element to the Atom document. Returns the index of the element added, or -1 for failure.

AddElementXml

# $tag is a string
# $xmlStr is a string
$retInt = $atom->AddElementXml($tag, $xmlStr);

Adds a new XML formatted element to the Atom document. Returns the index of the element added, or -1 for failure.

AddEntry

# $xmlStr is a string
$atom->AddEntry($xmlStr);

Adds an "entry" Atom XML document to the caller's Atom document.

AddLink

# $rel is a string
# $href is a string
# $title is a string
# $typ is a string
$atom->AddLink($rel, $href, $title, $typ);

Adds a link to the Atom document.

AddPerson

# $tag is a string
# $name is a string
# $uri is a string
# $email is a string
$atom->AddPerson($tag, $name, $uri, $email);

Adds a person to the Atom document. The tag should be a string such as "author", "contributor", etc. If a piece of information is not known, an empty string or NULL value may be passed.

DeleteElement

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
$atom->DeleteElement($tag, $index);

Removes the Nth occurrence of a given element from the Atom document. Indexing begins at 0. For example, to remove the 2nd category, set tag = "category" and index = 1.

DeleteElementAttr

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $attrName is a string
$atom->DeleteElementAttr($tag, $index, $attrName);

Remove an attribute from an element.The index should be 0 unless there are multiple elements having the same tag, in which case it selects the Nth occurrence based on the index ( 0 = first occurrence ).

DeletePerson

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
$atom->DeletePerson($tag, $index);

Deletes a person from the Atom document. The tag is a string such as "author". The index should be 0 unless there are multiple elements having the same tag, in which case it selects the Nth occurrence based on the index. For example, DeletePerson("author",2) deletes the 3rd author.

DownloadAtom

# $url is a string
$status = $atom->DownloadAtom($url);

Download an Atom feed from the Internet and load it into the Atom object.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

DownloadAtomAsync ⁽¹⁾

# returns a CkTask
# $url is a string
$ret_task = $atom->DownloadAtomAsync($url);

Creates an asynchronous task to call the DownloadAtom method with the arguments provided.

Returns null on failure

GetElement

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $outStr is a CkString (output)
$status = $atom->GetElement($tag, $index, $outStr);
$retStr = $atom->getElement($tag, $index);

Returns the content of the Nth element having a specified tag.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

GetElementAttr

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $attrName is a string
# $outStr is a CkString (output)
$status = $atom->GetElementAttr($tag, $index, $attrName, $outStr);
$retStr = $atom->getElementAttr($tag, $index, $attrName);

Returns the value of an element's attribute. The element is selected by the tag name and the index (the Nth element having a specific tag) and the attribute is selected by name.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

GetElementCount

# $tag is a string
$retInt = $atom->GetElementCount($tag);

The number of elements having a specific tag.

GetElementDateStr

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $outStr is a CkString (output)
$status = $atom->GetElementDateStr($tag, $index, $outStr);
$retStr = $atom->getElementDateStr($tag, $index);

Returns an element's value as a date/time in an RFC822 formatted string, such as such as "Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:25:32 -0500".

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

GetElementDt

# returns a CkDateTime
# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
$ret_ckDateTime = $atom->GetElementDt($tag, $index);

Returns an element's value as a date/time object.

Returns null on failure

GetEntry

# returns a CkAtom
# $index is an integer
$ret_atom = $atom->GetEntry($index);

Returns the Nth entry as an Atom object. (Indexing begins at 0)

Returns null on failure

GetLinkHref

# $relName is a string
# $outStr is a CkString (output)
$status = $atom->GetLinkHref($relName, $outStr);
$retStr = $atom->getLinkHref($relName);

Returns the href attribute of the link having a specified "rel" attribute (such as "service.feed", "alternate", etc.).

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

GetPersonInfo

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $tag2 is a string
# $outStr is a CkString (output)
$status = $atom->GetPersonInfo($tag, $index, $tag2, $outStr);
$retStr = $atom->getPersonInfo($tag, $index, $tag2);

Returns a piece of information about a person. To get the 2nd author's name, call GetPersonInfo("author",1,"name").

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

GetTopAttr

# $attrName is a string
# $outStr is a CkString (output)
$status = $atom->GetTopAttr($attrName, $outStr);
$retStr = $atom->getTopAttr($attrName);

Returns the value of an attribute on the top-level XML node. The tag of a top-level Atom XML node is typically "feed" or "entry", and it might have attributes such as "xmlns" and "xml:lang".

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

HasElement

# $tag is a string
$retBool = $atom->HasElement($tag);

True (1) if the element exists in the Atom document. Otherwise 0.

LoadTaskCaller

# $task is a CkTask
$status = $atom->LoadTaskCaller($task);

Introduced in version 9.5.0.80

Loads the caller of the task's async method.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

LoadXml

# $xmlStr is a string
$status = $atom->LoadXml($xmlStr);

Loads the Atom document from an XML string.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

NewEntry

$atom->NewEntry();

Initializes the Atom document to be a new "entry".

NewFeed

$atom->NewFeed();

Initializes the Atom document to be a new "feed".

SetElementAttr

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $attrName is a string
# $attrValue is a string
$atom->SetElementAttr($tag, $index, $attrName, $attrValue);

Adds or replaces an attribute on an element.

SetTopAttr

# $attrName is a string
# $value is a string
$atom->SetTopAttr($attrName, $value);

Adds or replaces an attribute on the top-level XML node of the Atom document.

ToXmlString

# $outStr is a CkString (output)
$status = $atom->ToXmlString($outStr);
$retStr = $atom->toXmlString();

Serializes the Atom document to an XML string.

Returns 1 for success, 0 for failure.

UpdateElement

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $value is a string
$atom->UpdateElement($tag, $index, $value);

Replaces the content of an element.

UpdateElementDateStr

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $dateTimeStr is a string
$atom->UpdateElementDateStr($tag, $index, $dateTimeStr);

Replaces the content of a date-formatted element. The index should be an RFC822 formatted date/time string.

UpdateElementDt

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $dateTime is a CkDateTime
$atom->UpdateElementDt($tag, $index, $dateTime);

Replaces the content of a date-formatted element.

UpdateElementHtml

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $htmlStr is a string
$atom->UpdateElementHtml($tag, $index, $htmlStr);

Replaces the content of an HTML element.

UpdateElementXHtml

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $xmlStr is a string
$atom->UpdateElementXHtml($tag, $index, $xmlStr);

Replaces the content of an XHTML element.

UpdateElementXml

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $xmlStr is a string
$atom->UpdateElementXml($tag, $index, $xmlStr);

Replaces the content of an XML element.

UpdatePerson

# $tag is a string
# $index is an integer
# $name is a string
# $uri is a string
# $email is a string
$atom->UpdatePerson($tag, $index, $name, $uri, $email);

Replaces the content of a person. To update the 3rd author, call UpdatePerson("author",2,"new name","new URL","new email"). If a piece of information is not known, pass an empty string or a NULL.