#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $agent = 'Amoe\'s LiveJournaller/0.01';
my $cgi   = 'http://www.livejournal.com/cgi-bin/log.cgi';
my $journaller = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$journaller->agent($agent);
my %global_params;

my $rc_file = 'ljer.rc';
open(RC, "<$rc_file") or die("couldn't open $rc_file: $!");
while (<RC>)
    {
    chomp;
    my ($key, $value) = split /\s*:\s*/, $_, 2;
    $global_params{$key} = $value;
    }
close(RC);

my %login = &login;

my $http_res = $journaller->request(POST $cgi, \%login);
die "Failed to login" unless ($http_res->is_success);
my %lj_res = split("\n", $http_res->content);
$lj_res{success} eq 'OK' ? print "logged in as $lj_res{name}\n" : die 
+"failed to log in: $lj_res{errmsg}\n";
print "server says: $lj_res{message}\n" unless (!$lj_res{message});

my %postevent = &postevent;

$http_res = $journaller->request(POST $cgi, \%postevent);
die "Failed to update journal" unless ($http_res->is_success);
%lj_res = split("\n", $http_res->content);
$lj_res{success} eq 'OK' ? print "updated journal successfully with en
+try $lj_res{itemid}\n" : print "failed to update journal: $lj_res{err
+msg}\n";
exit;

sub login
    {
    my %params = %global_params;
    $params{mode}          = 'login';
    $params{clientversion} = $agent;
    return %params;
    }

sub postevent
    {
    my %params = %global_params;
    $params{mode}        = 'postevent';
    $params{lineendings} = 'unix';
    $params{security}    = 'usemask';        # for public or private e
+ntry, change this to 'public' or 'private' and remove '$params{allowm
+ask} = 1' 
    $params{allowmask}   = 1;
    @params{'subject', 'event', 'prop_current_music', 'prop_current_mo
+od'} = read_text();
    @params{'min', 'hour', 'day', 'mon', 'year'} = (localtime(time))[1
+..5];
    $params{year} += 1900;
    $params{mon}  += 1;
    return %params;
    }

sub read_text
    {
    print "please enter your subject line:\n";
    chomp(my $subject = <STDIN>);
    my $text;
    print "please enter your journal entry (terminated by a period on 
+a single line):\n";
        {
        local $/;
        $/ = "\n.\n";
        chomp($text = <STDIN>);
        }
    print "please enter your current music: ";
    chomp(my $music = <STDIN>);
    print "please enter your current mood: ";
    chomp(my $mood  = <STDIN>);

    return $subject, $text, $music, $mood;
    }

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