NAME
ShipIt::Step::Facebook - ShipIt step to announce the upload on Facebook
SYNOPSIS
None.
DESCRIPTION
This ShipIt step announces the upload to Facebook.
To use it, just list it in your ".shipit" file. You might want to use it
after the "UploadCPAN" step, as it is not a good idea to announce the
upload before it has gone through - something might go wrong with the
upload.
If this step fails - maybe Facebook is down - a warning is issued, but
the shipit process doesn't die. This is because you might have uploaded
the distribution to CPAN already, and it would be a shame for the whole
process to die just because you're not able to facebook.
GET FACEBOOK ACCESS_TOKEN AND STORE
run "tools/init.pl" in this distribution.
Please follow the message of a script.
CONFIGURATION
In the ".shipit" file:
facebook.config = ~/.shipit.facebook
facebook.distname = Foo-Bar
facebook.message = shipped %d %v - soon at %f
facebook.target = me
You can define three configuration values for this step:
The Variables is not mandatory.
facebook.config
This is the location of the file that contains the Facebook
access_token and Wall target_id in YAML style. The first tilde is
expanded to the user's home directory. An example file could look
like this:
access_token: ACCESS_TOKEN
target: me
The access_token is mandatory.
default '~/.shipit.facebook'
facebook.distname
This variable is optional; it is the distribution's name. If the
variable is not defined, the step will try to read the distribution
name from the META.yml file.
facebook.message
This variable is optional; it is the message to send to Facebook.
You can use placeholders, which will be expanded. If the variable is
not defined, this default message will be used:
shipped %d %v - soon at %f
The following placeholders are recognized:
%d Will be expanded to the distribution name that you defined in
"facebook.distname".
%u Will be expanded to the distribution's CPAN URL - if the
distribution name is "Foo-Bar", for example, the URL will be
"
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar".
%f Will be expanded to the distribution's FrePAN URL - if the
distribution name is "Foo-Bar", for example, the URL will be
"
http://frepan.org/dist/Foo-Bar".
%v Will be expanded to the version of the distribution you're
shipping.
%% Will result in a percent sign.
facebook.target
you can select Wall page in message write.
When you want to carry out POST to Wall of
"
http://www.facebook.com/kazuhiro.osawa":
facebook.target = kazuhiro.osawa
When you want to carry out POST to Wall of
"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yappo/200453809970361":
facebook.target = 200453809970361
AUTHOR
Kazuhiro Osawa <yappo {at} shibuya {dot} pl>
SEE ALSO
ShipIt, many code takes from ShipIt::Step::Twitter
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
