What's new on CPAN - February 2018

Mar 5, 2018 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

• Net::SPID provides an interface to the Italian digital identity system
• SMS::Send::NANP::Twilio can send SMS via Twilio
• Interact with Extreme Networking products over Telnet, SSH or Serial port using Control::CLI::Extreme

Config & Devops

• Figure out the default settings for an Apache httpd daemon using Apache::Defaults
• Config::AWS can parse the INI-like AWS config files
• IO::ReadHandle::Include can read files with #include directives
• Module::FromPerlVer manages modules by Perl version

Data

• Break up large database queries into batches using DBIx::BatchChunker
• Data::Visitor::Tiny recursively walks data structures
• Get a DWIM JSON parser with JSON::ize
• Turn DBIx::Class results into JSON API documents using JSONAPI::Document
• Pod::Term is another pod parser borne out of need. Last time I checked Pod::Simple still had code called “blackbox”
• Transform CSV files into pivot-style tables with Text::CSV::Pivot
• Pg::ServiceFile is a PostgreSQL connection service file interface
• PostgreSQL connection service file parser: Config::Pg::ServiceFile
• Another XKCD-style password generator, perhaps better than others though: CtrlO::Crypt::XkcdPassword

Development & Version Control

• Add Design By Contract á la Eiffel with Class::DbC
• Generate a GUI from a text design using GUIDeFATE
• Back up your repositories, issues, gists and more with Github::Backup
• Try to Do the Right Thing ™ when opening files with Open::This
• Parallel::Subs is a simple way to run subs in parallel and process their return value in perl. Let’s hope Storable is fast enough!
• Term::CLI is a command line interpreter based on Term::ReadLine
• Unix::Groups::FFI provides an interface to Unix group syscalls

Web

• A client for talking with the Transmission BitTorrent daemon: Mojo::Transmission
• Mojolicious::Plugin::JSONAPI is a Mojo plugin for building JSON API-compliant applications
• Plack::Auth::SSO is a role for middleware Single Sign On (SSO) authentication
• Measure HTTP stats on each request with Plack::Middleware::StatsPerRequest
• URI::Fast is a fast(er) URI parser