Net::OpenID::UserProfile

[Martin Atkins]

Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
> 
> Actually, this sounds like a much larger idea than just OpenID.  A
> module that takes an arbitrary URL, retrieves all the metadata
> associated with it, and sets it up in a usable, format-agnostic form
> would likely have applications elsewhere.  Suggested name:
> WWW::Profile or WWW::AuthorProfile.
> 

I was thinking the same thing. Make a generic module (what about 
WWW::ProfileInformation ?) which can parse and return all of the 
personal profile data for a given document, and then create the 
OpenID-specific module (which accepts a VerifiedIdentity object) which 
is just a thin wrapper around it.

However, the advatage of it being bound to OpenID is that it can borrow 
the generic caching functionality from the consumer. I guess that 
indicates that it's a good idea to separate that out into a separate, 
non-OpenID-specific module as well.

The OpenID consumer has also already fetched all of the auto-discovery 
URLs while it was getting the OpenID server, so there would need to be a 
mechanism to throw in already-discovered URLs as well as the "get 
whatever information you can about this URL" interface.

This suddenly got a lot more complicated!

Perhaps for now we should just make the OpenID-specific module for the 
sake of getting things working quickly. We can always refactor it into a 
generic module later, and with it being OpenID-specific it shouldn't 
take more than a few hours work.