What's new on CPAN - July 2017

Aug 2, 2017 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

• WebService::CastleIO is a client for the identity theft protection service
• Get a simple Perl wrapper around the League of Legends API WWW::RiotGames::LeagueOfLegends
• WebService::IFConfig::Client is a client for the IP geo-location site

Config & Devops

• Validate YAML Front Matter with TidyAll using Code::TidyAll::Plugin::YAMLFrontMatter
• List the contents of a directory with Dir::ls
• File::ShareDir::Dist can locate per-dist shared files
• RL is an alternative to Term::Readline modules, providing an interface to the machine’s readline library on Linux and MacOS
• Sort version strings as in GNU filevercmp with Sort::filevercmp
• Several new Alien::Build plugins:
  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Prompt to prompt a user before downloading tarballs
  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Rewrite to override destinations to local network paths for fetching
  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Decode::SourceForge to better handle SourceForge links

Data

• Geo::GNS::Parser can parse a GNS data file (GeoNET Names Server data)
• Get a Perl extension for the libtiff library using Graphics::TIFF
• JsonSQL is similar to SQL::Abstract: it defines a JSON format to represent SQL queries which can be validated and then used to generate SQL syntax
• Nonblocking MySQL connections via libmariadbclient with MariaDB::NonBlocking
• Neo4j::Cypher::Abstract can generate cypher queries in Perl
• Create and modify PDFs using PDF::Builder
• PGObject::Util::Replication::Standby manages PG replication standbys
• Get a simple Postgresql-backed queue with Pg::Queue
• Two new DynamoDB helpers that translate DynamoDB documents into Perl data structures and vice-versa:
  • Net::Amazon::DynamoDB::Marshaler translates Perl hashrefs into DynamoDb format and vice versa
  • PawsX::DynamoDB::DocumentClient a simplified way of working with AWS DynamoDB items that uses Paws under the hood
• Write fake AWS services using Paws and PawsX::FakeImplementation::Instance
• Paws::Net::MultiplexCaller can route AWS service requests to other callers

Development & Version Control

• Create lexical aliases under different versions of Perl (except 5.20) using Alias::Any
• AnyEvent::Consul::Exec can execute commands across a Consul cluster
• CLI::Osprey - write command line apps with Moo(se) classes
• MooseX::DIC is a dependency injector for Moose

Language & International

• Calendar::Julian is a pretty Julian calendar implementation

Science & Mathematics

• LinAlg::Vector is a Moose-based vector library
• Physics::Ballistics provides utility functions for projectile calculations
• Use immutable segment trees with Set::SegmentTree

Web

• Extract data from Google Analytics using Mojo::GoogleAnalytics
• Mojo::UserAgent::Cached adds caching to Mojo::UserAgent

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.