Wow. That has WAY more than I want! But in a way, it's quite similar. One of the things I'm trying to avoid is building a class for each kind of thingy we get back, which is what Net::Amazon does horribly and unmaintainably. Yahoo::Search appears to sidestep this with a single ::Result. I like this.
On 8 May 2012, at 17:03, Alex Balhatchet wrote: > Way back in '06 when I first wrote WebService::Nestoria::Search I was > encouraged to copy the style of Yahoo::Search - given that it was > written by Jeffrey Friedl and is now maintained by Tim Bunce I think > that counts as "on the shoulders of giants" too :-) > > The style is very Do It All Yourself but it's simple enough to > maintain given small/incremental changes in the API. > > - Alex > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Dave Hodgkinson <daveh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I hated the Amazon one, it was overkill. Probabl my usual approach of >> flinging hashes around is suboptimal. Schwern's position on the shoulders >> of giants by using DBIC for a relatively simple interface might be too heavy. >> >> Examples you like? >> >>