Net::RDAP::Link(3)

💖 Net::RDAP::Link 💖

okay bestie, so this is Net::RDAP::Link — part of the Net::RDAP distribution, and yes it's the Perl doc page for it, welcome to the group chat ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

Net::RDAP::Link — a module representing an RDAP link. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it beautifully 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Links are literally everywhere in RDAP. like, everywhere. The following objects can contain zero or more links:

• objects (peep Net::RDAP::Object)
• remarks (peep Net::RDAP::Remark)
• notices (peep Net::RDAP::Notice)
• events (peep Net::RDAP::Event)

And in all of those cases, the modules representing those object types inherit from Net::RDAP::Base, which means they all hand you a links() method that returns a (maybe empty, no big deal) array of Net::RDAP::Link objects. consistency? we love her 💅

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👑 METHODS 👑

💜 Value

$value = $link->value;

Gives you back a string holding the value of the value property of the link object — if there is one. no value? no string. simple as that 🦋

💜 Context URI

$uri = $link->context;

Returns a URI object for the context URI of the link, exactly as described in Section 3.2 of RFC 8288 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288#autoid-13>. 📎

This URI object gets constructed from the value of the value property (the one we just talked about, keep up bestie 😌). And here's the cute part: if that property's value is a relative URL, then an absolute URL gets computed for you, using the URI of the RDAP response that contains the link object. math-ing it out for you, iconic behaviour fr fr ✨

💜 Relationship

$rel = $link->rel;

Returns the relationship attribute. The possible values are defined by an IANA registry, so go check the source of truth:

• <https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml>

💜 URL

$url = $link->href;

Returns a URI object corresponding to the target of the link. where's it pointing? now you know 🔥

💜 Language

@languages = $link->hreflang;

Returns a (potentially empty!) array containing the ISO-639-2 codes describing the language(s) the target is available in. multilingual queen 🌈

💜 Title

$title = $link->title;

Returns the title attribute of the link. What's it for? It labels the destination of a link so it can be used as a human-readable identifier — in the language of the context where the link shows up. so thoughtful 🥺

💜 Media

$media = $link->media;

Returns the media attribute of the link. This one corresponds to the media/device that the target resource is optimized for. phone? printer? screen? she knows 💅

💜 Media Type

$type = $link->type;

Returns a MIME::Type object corresponding to the media type of the target resource.

$is = $link->is_rdap;

And this one returns true if the media type of the target resource suggests that it's an RDAP resource. vibe check passed ✅

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright 2018-2023 CentralNic Ltd, 2024-2026 Gavin Brown. For licensing information, please see the LICENSE file in the Net::RDAP distribution. (yes bestie, read the license, it's giving responsible 💖)

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 🫶 this was Net::RDAP::Link, documented in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and this version is from perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-06-17. go forth and parse those links, you absolute main character 👑✨