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+package CouchDB;
+
+# http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting_started_with_Perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use LWP::UserAgent;
+use JSON;
+use Data::Dump qw/dump/;
+
+sub new {
+ my ($class, $host, $port, $options) = @_;
+
+ my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
+ $ua->timeout(10);
+ $ua->env_proxy;
+
+ $host ||= 'localhost';
+ $port ||= 5984;
+
+ return bless {
+ ua => $ua,
+ host => $host,
+ port => $port,
+ base_uri => "http://$host:$port/",
+ }, $class;
+}
+
+sub ua { shift->{ua} }
+sub base { shift->{base_uri} }
+
+sub request {
+ my ($self, $method, $uri, $content) = @_;
+
+ my $full_uri = $self->base . $uri;
+ my $req;
+
+ if (defined $content) {
+ #Content-Type: application/json
+
+ $req = HTTP::Request->new( $method, $full_uri, undef, $content );
+ $req->header('Content-Type' => 'application/json');
+ } else {
+ $req = HTTP::Request->new( $method, $full_uri );
+ }
+
+ my $response = $self->ua->request($req);
+
+ if ($response->is_success) {
+ return $response->content;
+ } else {
+ die($response->status_line . ":" . $response->content);
+ }
+}
+
+our $rev;
+
+sub delete {
+ my ($self, $url) = @_;
+
+ $self->request(DELETE => $url);
+}
+
+sub get {
+ my ($self, $url) = @_;
+
+ from_json $self->request(GET => $url);
+}
+
+sub put {
+ my ($self, $url, $json) = @_;
+ warn "put $url ",dump($json);
+
+ $rev->{$url} ||= eval { $self->get( $url )->{_rev} };
+
+ $json->{_rev} = $rev->{$url} if $rev->{$url};
+
+ $json = to_json $json if $json;
+
+ $self->request(PUT => $url, $json);
+}
+
+sub post {
+ my ($self, $url, $json) = @_;
+
+ $self->request(POST => $url, $json);
+}
+
+1;