Service...:Request(3)

💖 Request module 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Service...:Request(3) — it's a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's all about the Service-now Perl API - Request perl module. yes you read that right, we're doing Service-now today and it's gonna be cute. 🎀

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🦋 Desciption 🦋

So like. This thing is an object representation of an Request in the Service-now platform. that's the whole vibe. it's a little object standing in for a request so you don't have to rawdog the API yourself.

And what does it actually do for you? It provides subroutines for querying, updating, and creating service catalog requests. query, update, create — the holy trinity, no cap. ✨

🌸 System Requirements 🌸

The Service-now Perl API requires Perl 5.8, and you also need these modules installed, bestie, don't skip this part:

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

lowkey if you're missing any of these it is simply not going to work. get them first. 💅

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🌈 Constructor 🌈

⭐ new ⭐

new(Configuration);

Example, because we love a demonstration:

$request = ServiceNow::ITIL::Request->new($CONFIG);

So what's happening here? It takes a configuration object and manufactures an Request object connected to the Service-now instance. that's it. that's the whole job. you hand it the config, it hands you back an object that's already plugged into your instance. iconic honestly. 🔥

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💜 Subroutines 💜

🫶 createRequest 🫶

createRequest(user);

What it does: create a service request for the specified user. you pass in the user, you get a service request. simple. slay. ✨

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reminder bestie: this page is for Service...:Request(3), part of the Service-now Perl API. every flag, every module, every call up there is exactly as the docs say it — I just made it fun. 🙈

okay that's the page!! go forth and make requests, queen. 👑

— written up from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25. mwah. 💋💖