WWW::Search::HotJobs 1.30

WWW::Search::HotJobs is a Perl class for searching HotJobs.

SYNOPSIS

require WWW::Search;
$search = new WWW::Search(HotJobs);

This class is an HotJobs specialization of WWW::Search. It handles making and interpreting HotJobs searches http://www.HotJobs.com.

This class exports no public interface; all interaction should be done through WWW::Search objects.

OPTIONS

None at this time (2001.04.25)

search_url=URL

Specifies who to query with the HotJobs protocol. The default is at http://www.HotJobs.com/cgi-bin/job-search.

search_debug, search_parse_debug, search_ref Specified at WWW::Search.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

native_setup_search is called before we do anything. It initializes our private variables (which all begin with underscores) and sets up a URL to the first results page in {_next_url}.

native_retrieve_some is called (from WWW::Search::retrieve_some) whenever more hits are needed. It calls the LWP library to fetch the page specified by {_next_url}. It parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to {cache}. If it finds a ``next button in the text, it sets {_next_url} to point to the page for the next set of results, otherwise it sets it to undef to indicate were done.