first stab at AP elections interface

2012.pm

package WWW::AP::Elections::2012;
use Moose;

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
use LWP::Simple qw(get);
use Geography::States;

has states => (
    is => 'ro',
    lazy_build => 1,
);

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;

#will return a hash ref with the state's election results
sub get_results {
    my $self = shift;
    unless (@_) { return {} }

    use Data::Dumper;
    warn Dumper $self->states;

    return {}; #return state info hash
}

sub _build_states {
    my $content = get(
'http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2012/by_state/AZ_Page_0228.html?SITE=CSPANELN&SECTION=POLITICS'
    ) or return {};
    $tree->parse($content);

    my @states;

    my @list =
      $tree->findnodes('.//select[@id="States_Menu"]/option[@value=~/\.html/]');
    foreach my $state (@list) {
        my %info;

        if ( my $name = $state->as_text ) {
            $name =~ s@.+?\d:\s*@@;
            $info{name} = $name;
        }
        $info{link} = $state->findvalue('./@value');

        push @states, \%info if $info{name} && $info{link};
    }
    return return \@states;
}

sub _absurl {
   my ($self, $url) = @_;
   return "http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2012/by_state/$url";
}

sub _check_state {
    my $state = shift;
    my $us = Geography::States->new('USA');
}


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