Service...pproval(3)

💖 Approval module 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let's talk about the Service-now Perl API — specifically the Approval perl module 🎀 this is Service...pproval(3) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and she is lowkey iconic.

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🌸 Desciption 🌸

(and yes she really is spelled Desciption in the source, we don't fix her, we love her 💅)

It's an object representation of an Approval record in the Service-now platform. That's the whole vibe. And it provides subroutines for querying, updating, and creating approvals ✨ so basically everything you'd want to do with an approval, it's giving.

🦋 System Requirements 🦋

The Service-now Perl API needs Perl 5.8, plus these modules installed or she simply will not run, no cap 😭:

• SOAP::Lite (prerequisites http://soaplite.com/prereqs.html) 0.71 or later
• Crypt::SSLeay
• IO::Socket::SSL

bestie pls actually install all three, don't be the person who shows up with two out of three 🙈

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🧚 Constructor 🧚

⭐ new ⭐

new(Configuration);

Example, copy it exactly bestie:

$approvals = ServiceNow::ITIL::Approval->new($CONFIG);

So what's happening here 👀 — it takes a configuration object and manufactures an Approval object connected to the Service-now instance. That's it. That's the whole thing. You hand her the config, she hands you back an object that's already connected. main character energy honestly 👑

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💜 Subroutines 💜

🍓 reject 🍓

reject(sys_id of approval record, optional comment string)

Example:

$approval->reject($sysID,$comment);

This one rejects the Approval record with the specified sys id, and — if you gave her a comment — she adds the comment to the approval. The comment is optional, the sys id is not, iykyk 💀

🌈 approve 🌈

approve(sys_id of approval record, optional comment string)

Example:

$approval->approve($sysID,$comment);

Same shape, opposite energy ✨ this one approves the Approval record with the specified sys id, and if you passed a comment, that comment gets added to the approval. Slay. Go off. Approve that thing 🫶

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both of these want the sys_id of the approval record as the first argument, and the comment string is optional in both cases. Same rules, different outcome. Choose wisely bestie 💅

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perl v5.42.0 🦋 2025-07-25 — that's the version and date this page came from, mwah, thanks for reading, go approve something responsibly 💖✨🎀