Net::SNPP(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Net::SNPP(3)NAMENet::SNPP - Simple Network Pager Protocol Client
SYNOPSIS
use Net::SNPP;
# Constructors
$snpp = Net::SNPP->new('snpphost');
$snpp = Net::SNPP->new('snpphost', Timeout => 60);
NOTE
This module is in a maintenance mode, as I no longer have significant
access to SNPP servers to test with. However, to the best of the
present maintainer's knowledge, the module works just fine and has been
used in many a production environment.
DESCRIPTION
This module implements a client interface to the SNPP protocol,
enabling a perl5 application to talk to SNPP servers. This
documentation assumes that you are familiar with the SNPP protocol
described in RFC1861.
A new Net::SNPP object must be created with the new method. Once this
has been done, all SNPP commands are accessed through this object.
EXAMPLES
This example will send a pager message in one hour saying "Your lunch
is ready"
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Net::SNPP;
$snpp = Net::SNPP->new('snpphost');
$snpp->send( Pager => $some_pager_number,
Message => "Your lunch is ready",
Alert => 1,
Hold => time + 3600, # lunch ready in 1 hour :-)
) || die $snpp->message;
$snpp->quit;
CONSTRUCTOR
new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
This is the constructor for a new Net::SNPP object. "HOST" is the
name of the remote host to which a SNPP connection is required.
If "HOST" is not given, then the "SNPP_Host" specified in
"Net::Config" will be used.
"OPTIONS" are passed in a hash like fashion, using key and value
pairs. Possible options are:
Timeout - Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a response from the
SNPP server (default: 120)
Debug - Enable debugging information
Example:
$snpp = Net::SNPP->new('snpphost',
Debug => 1,
);
METHODS
Unless otherwise stated all methods return either a true or false
value, with true meaning that the operation was a success. When a
method states that it returns a value, failure will be returned as
undef or an empty list.
reset ()
help ()
Request help text from the server. Returns the text or undef upon
failure
quit ()
Send the QUIT command to the remote SNPP server and close the
socket connection.
site ( CMD )
Send a SITE command to the remote SNPP server. site() take a single
argument which is the command string to send to the SNPP server.
ping ( PAGER_ID )
Determine if the remote SNPP server is able to contact a given
pager ID. (Level 3 command)
noqueue ()
Instruct the SNPP server not to queue the two-way request. (Level
3 command)
expire_time ( HOURS )
Cause the paging request to be canceled if it has not been sent in
the specified number of hours. (Level 3 command)
read_ack ( TRUEFALSE )
Enable and disable the read acknowledgement notification sent by
the pager. (Level 3 command)
reply_type ( TYPE_CODE )
Change the type of reply that the page will send back. Valid
options are: NONE, YESNO, SIMREPLY, MULTICHOICE, and TEXT. (Level 3
command)
message_response ( INT TEXT ) (Level 3)
Create message responses to deliver with the message. INT is a
2-byte number. The total number of definable responses may be
limited by your server. Some server may need you to call
reply_type() before specifying responses.
message_status ( MSGID MSGID ) (Level 3)
Get the message status from the remote server. Use the Message_Tag
and Pass_Code from send_two_way() as the arguments to this method,
and if your server supports it, you should be able to retrieve the
status of a 2-way message. An array/arraref is returned with the
following 5 elements:
[0] Sequence
[1] Date&Time
[2] +/- GMT (if provided by server)
[3] server-specific response text
[4] numeric response code from server (i.e. 860 or 960)
send_two_way () (Level 3)
Use this method instead of send() when working in Level 3 of the
SNPP protocol. Before using this method, you have to build up your
page using the other methods in the module, then use this at the
very end to "submit" your page. An array/arrayref will be returned
with the following 4 elements:
[0] Message_Tag
[1] Pass_Code
[2] server-specific response text
[3] numeric response code from server (i.e. 860 or 960)
NOTE: This is only the SEND command - you have to build the page
using various methods from this module before calling this method.
2WAY EXAMPLES
use Net::SNPP;
my $snpp = Net::SNPP->new( "snpp.provider.com" );
$snpp->two_way();
$snpp->pager_id( 5555555555 );
$snpp->data( "The sky is falling!\nThe sky is falling!" );
$snpp->message_response( 1, "Don't Panic" );
$snpp->message_response( 2, "Panic!" );
my @result = $snpp->send_two_way();
$snpp->quit();
printf "Use these two numbers: \"%s %s\" to check message status.\n",
$result[0], $result[1];
__END__
use Net::SNPP;
my $snpp = Net::SNPP->new( "snpp.provider.com" );
my @status = $snpp->message_status( $ARGV[0], $ARGV[1] );
$snpp->quit;
printf "User responded with: %s\n", $status[3];
EXPORTS
"Net::SNPP" exports all that "Net::CMD" exports, plus three more
subroutines that can bu used to compare against the result of "status".
These are :- "CMD_2WAYERROR", "CMD_2WAYOK", and "CMD_2WAYQUEUED".
SEE ALSO
Net::Cmd RFC1861
AUTHOR
Derek J. Balling <dredd@megacity.org> ( original version by Graham Barr
) Al Tobey <tobeya@tobert.org> (since Oct 2003)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-2001 Graham Barr. (c) 2001-2003 Derek J. Balling.
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
$Id: SNPP.pm,v 1.9 2004/01/27 22:18:32 tobeya Exp $
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