Need to collect every thing that the API will do into a list

• check network connectivity with Net::HTTP (dependancy for LWP)

Find places in ADS docs that need to have information added or updated.

• http://doc.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/help_pages/linking.html has a page referring to Alasdair's module on search.cpan.org. Move it to metacpan.org
• Clients section on https://github.com/adsabs/adsabs-dev-api/blob/master/README.md

Allow the selection of different databases as given in the
RT request

Available databases

• AST
• PRE
• ALL

Update version tag

Remember to update the git version tags from NeilB's post for the CPAN release version.

git tag v0.06
git push --tags -u origin master

Final step

Move this issue to the next milestone when finished.

Find the minimum version of perl required using perlver and put it in the build scripts and the ADS modules.

Requests need to work with user's key stored in ~/.ads/dev_key or saved as an environment variable named ADS_DEV_KEY

So the module can be tested by CPANTS, either need a limited API key for testing purposes or a way to mock the request and parsing results.

fix issues

Discussion imported from RT (4 emails) https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=96573

I would like to query the PRE database (instead of the default AST
database) for arXIV papers using:

Astro::ADS::Query
Astro::ADS::Result::Paper
Astro::ADS::Result

Doug van Orsow (Vantage Systems, Inc.) Bldg 22 Rm 5 [email protected]

Hi Doug,

Funny you should ask that. I was given the answer to that just last week.
It's hardcoded in on line 660 of Query.pm
${$self->{OPTIONS}}{"db_key"} = "AST";
I believe PRE will just look at the pre-prints, whereas ALL will search all
databases (it's the one I'm using now).

In any case, I also saw that one-line option of setting the db_key to
AST, so just wondered if it could easily be changed to PRE in order to
access the pre-print ADS archive? Does setting it to ALL actually access
the PRE archive as well, or just other databases of AST?

I would suggest that you change the line from AST to ALL. That will search
the PRE, AST and any other database they have configured.