NAME¶

Twitter::API::Trait::DecodeHtmlEntities - Decode HTML entities in strings

VERSION¶

version 1.0006

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Twitter::API;
    use open qw/:std :utf8/;
    my $client = Twitter::API->new_with_traits(
        traits => [ qw/ApiMethods DecodeHtmlEntites/ ],
        %other_options
    );
    my $status = $client->show_status(801814387723935744);
    say $status->{text};
    # output:
    # Test DecodeHtmlEntities trait. < & > XX X 'single' "double"
    #
    # output without the DecodeHtmlEntities trait:
    # Test DecodeHtmlEntities trait. &lt; &amp; &gt; XX X 'single' "double"

DESCRIPTION¶

Twitter has trust issues. They assume you're going to push the text you receive in API responses to a web page without HTML encoding it. But you HTML encode all of your output right? And Twitter's lack of trust has you double encoding entities.

So, include this trait and Twitter::API will decode HTML entities in all of the text returned by the API.

You're welcome.

AUTHOR¶

Marc Mims <marc@questright.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

This software is copyright (c) 2015-2021 by Marc Mims.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.