Hello,
Thank you for the reply.

I guess my confusion is, ticket_list_response is an object that delegates methods, changing ticket_list_response to a method then won't allow me to call object methods later.

For instance, I want to initialize ticket_list_response attribute, then call count_tickets on the ticket_list_response object.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Kayako3::Staff;

# this initializes  Kayako3::Staff object,
# performs the login,
# parses the login response and stores the user session ID,
# then initializes the info_response object which provides 
# all the info for id lookups later on
my $help_desk = Kayako3::Staff->new({
    username => 'bob',
    password => 'my_pass',
    api_url => 'http://example.com/staffapi?',
});

# since the API requires integer ids, 
# I perform a lookup in separate steps for clarity
# usually, I'll perform this all in one step:
# $help_desk->get_ticket_list( 
#    $help_desk->get_department_id("Support"), 
#    $help_desk->get_ticket_status_id("New") 
# );

my $department_id = $help_desk->get_department_id("Support");
my $ticket_status_id = $help_desk->get_ticket_status_id("New");

$hd->get_ticket_list($department_id, $ticket_status_id)

# once the ticket is loaded:
print "Ticket count in " 
    . $help_desk->ticket_list_response->department 
    . ", for tickets with status " 
    . $help_desk->ticket_list_response->status 
    . ": " 
    . $help_desk->get_ticket_count . "\n";

# sample output:  
# Ticket count in Support, for tickets with status New: 10

# then later on, I want to do the same thing 
# for a different department:
my $department_id = $help_desk->get_department_id("Sales");
my $ticket_status_id 
    = $help_desk->get_ticket_status_id("In progress");

$hd->get_ticket_list($department_id, $ticket_status_id)

#Then I want to print the ticket count again, 
# for the new department, 
# but performing $help_desk->get_ticket_count 
# returns the same results above
print "Ticket count in " 
    . $help_desk->ticket_list_response->department 
    . ", for tickets with status " 
    . $help_desk->ticket_list_response->status 
    . ": " 
    . $help_desk->get_ticket_count . "\n";

# sample output:  
# Ticket count in Support, for tickets with status New: 10
# desired ouutput:  
# Ticket count in Sales, for tickets with status In Progress: 15
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Usually, I wouldn't call $help_desk->_ticket_list_response->department directly, however, it is important to help illustrate my problem.

I don't want to call ticket_list_response directly because it only provides a place holder to store the Kayako3::Staff:Response::TicketList object.

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