Biblio...er::API(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Biblio::RFID::Reader::API — bestie, this is the low-level RFID reader documentation. It's the lore drop for how the whole reader thing works underneath. Periodt. 🦋

It lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation, manual section 3pm, iykyk.

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✨ MANDATORY METHODS ✨

Okay so listen 👑 — every single reader must implement these hooks as sub-classes. Like, no skipping, this isn't a vibe-optional situation. If you're building a reader, these are the assignments, and you WILL be doing them. 💅

🌸 init

$self->init;

🌸 inventory

my @tags = $self->invetory;

not me pointing out that yes, it literally says invetory up there 👀 — keep it exactly like that, bestie, do not "fix" it, that's how it's written fr fr

🌸 read_blocks

my $hash = $self->read_blocks( $tag );

All the blocks live under a key that is the tag UID, and the value is the array of blocks that came back from the reader. It's giving nested data structure core. 🎀

$hash = { 'E000000123456789' => [ 'blk1', 'blk2', ... ] };

Biblio::RFID::Reader::3M810 sends the tag UID along with the data payload, so we might expect to receive a response from other tags from the protocol specification. 🫶

🌸 write_blocks

$self->write_blocks( $tag => $bytes );

$self->write_blocks( $tag => [ 'blk1', 'blk2', ... ] );

🌸 read_afi

my $afi = $self->read_afi( $tag );

🌸 write_afi

$self->write_afi( $tag => $afi );

🌸 tag_type

$self->tag_type( $tag );

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💜 METHODS 💜

🦋 new

It literally just calls "init" in the reader implementation, so this class can be used as a simple stub base class — exactly like Biblio::RFID::Reader::librfid does. Main character energy from a method that does one (1) thing. We stan. ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this was written by perl v5.36.0 on 2023-05-24, and it's the manpage for Biblio::RFID::Reader::API(3pm) — go build something iconic with it 💅💖