What's new on CPAN - April 2020

May 20, 2020 by David Farrell

Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• Use the open, decentralizedc Matrix communication network with Net::Matrix::Webhook
• Call Docker CLI commands from Perl using Docker::CLI::Wrapper
• InfluxDB::Client::Simple is a lightweight InfluxDB client
• Termux::API provides a Perly interface to the popular Android terminal emulator
• Get financial data via Yahoo Finance with Yahoo::Finance

Config & Devops

• Grant Street Group added more healthcheck modules:
  • HealthCheck::Diagnostic::DBHCheck checks a database handle has read/write permissions
  • HealthCheck::Diagnostic::SFTP checks secure FTP access
  • HealthCheck::Diagnostic::WebRequest checks HTTP/HTTPS connectivity

Data

• Moo-ify DBIx::Class rows using DBIx::Class::Moo::ResultClass
• Data::Random::Structure::UTF8 can fill a data structure with random UTF-8 data
• JSON::Schema::Generate generates JSON schemas from data structures
• Use named (instead of positional) placeholders with SQL queries via SQL::Bind

Development & Version Control

• Docker::Names::Random generates random strings like Docker does for container names (e.g. “lazy_fermat”)
• A class based approach for scripting options: Getopt::Class
• Get simple, non-blocking IPC with IPC::Simple
• MooseX::amine ++ for module naming, it let’s you examine the methods and properties of Moose objects
• Return from multiple blocks in one go with Return::Deep
• Test::Ability provides property-based testing routines
• fs::Promises provides a promises interface to non-blocking file system operations

Web

• Manage passwords in Dancer2 with Argon2 using Dancer2::Plugin::Argon2
• Use the Minion job queue in your Dancer2 apps with Dancer2::Plugin::Minion
• Override any method in your Kelp application with KelpX::Hooks
• Mojo::Log::Role::Color adds color to your interactive mojo logs
• Mojo::UserAgent::Role::Signature automatically signs request transactions
• Multipart::Encoder is an encoder for mime-type multipart/form-data.