BZ::Client::API(3pm)

💅 BZ::Client::API — the abstract base class era

ok so bestie, welcome to BZ::Client::API, a page straight out of the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the internet ✨ this is the abstract base class for all the clients of the Bugzilla API — the ✨mother ship✨ that the other little client classes inherit their whole personality from 🫶

🎀 NAME 🎀

BZ::Client::API — literally the abstract base class for the clients of the Bugzilla API, no cap 💅

⭐ VERSION ⭐

version 4.91 — yes, she's serving 4.91, we stan a numbered queen 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so picture this: this is an abstract base class for classes like BZ::Client::Product, which are subclassing this one, in order to inherit common functionality 🧚 it's giving "family tree but make it code" fr fr

🚨 real talk though: None of these methods are useful to end users. like, at all. this is backstage machinery, not the main character energy you're looking for 💀

🦋 METHODS 🦋

💜 api_call

Wraps BZ::Client::api_call — that's it, that's the whole vibe, it's a little wrapper doing wrapper things 😌

💜 error

Wraps BZ::Client::error — again with the wrapping, very "I'm the middleman and I'm thriving" 🌈

💜 new

The generic new() function. Saving doing it over and over 💅 like, why write the same constructor a million times when you can just… not? iconic behavior honestly 👑

💜 _create

Calls something on the Bugzilla Server, and returns and ID 🔥 (yes, the page says "and ID" — we're keeping it exactly as-is, character for character, no notes 🙈💖)

💜 _returns_array

Calls something on the Bugzilla Server, and returns an array / arrayref 🍓 so like… an array, but also possibly an arrayref. choices were made and we're respecting them ✨

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• BZ::Client — go check out the main character, she's right there 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Dean Hamstead <dean@bytefoundry.com.au> 💖
• Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedmann@gmail.com> 💖

🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

This software is copyright (c) 2026 by Dean Hamstad. 🌸 (spelled Hamstad right here on the page, and we are not editing it, we respect the source fr fr 😭💀)

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. 🦋 so like, go off, remix it, share it, the license said yes 💅✨

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎉 this queen was packaged as perl v5.40.2 and dated 2026-07-16, so if you're reading her sometime after that, she's still out here being an abstract base class with main character energy 🌈💖 mwah, go subclass responsibly 😌👑