What's new on CPAN - June 2017

Jul 18, 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. The Perl Conference NA was held in June and the talks are on YouTube. Enjoy!

APIs & Apps

• App::BorgRestore restores paths from borg backups
• Net::Async::Slack provides async Slack messaging
• Trade bitcoin, ether et al using WebService::CoinSpot
• Use the Globus research data sharing service with Acme::Globus
• Build and sign GDAX REST request using Finance::GDAX::API
• REST integration with icinga2 using Monitoring::Icinga2::Client::REST
• WWW::Zotero::Write provides a Perl interface to the Zotero Write API

Config & Devops

• Send messages over serial ports using IPC::Serial
• List out of date author prereqs with Module::CheckDep::Version
• PPIx::Utils has been separated from PPI
• Win32::Ldd tracks dependencies for Windows EXE and DLL files
• lib::relative adds paths relative to the current file to @INC

Data

• List::Flat provides functions to flatten array references
• List::Haystack an immutable list utility to find elements
• Data::Dx can dump data structures with name and point-of-origin
• Hash::GuavaRing get consistent ring hashing using guava hash (explained here

Development & Version Control

• Asynchronously process stream data with Async::Stream
• Interesting: use names beginning with control for punctuation variables using English::Control
• PPR Pattern-based Perl Recognizer - Damian’s PPI alternative
• Get a pure Perl method keyword; Method::Signatures::PP (uses PPR)
• Not another Moose clone, Moxie is Stevan Little’s new OO system
• TAP::Harness::BailOnFail bail’s on remaining tests after first failure
• Test::Compiles tests if perl can compile a string of code
• Test::Expr test an expression with better error messages
• Output the lines of code that resulted in a failure using Test2::Plugin::SourceDiag

Hardware

• Perl Interface to HIDAPI with Device::HID
• Interface to the I2C bus on the Raspberry Pi using RPi::I2C

Other

• Rdirect Printer::ESCPOS output to a PDF file instead of a printer with Printer::ESCPOS::PDF
• SPVM Fast calculation, GC, static typing, VM with perlish syntax

Science & Mathematics

• Recognize passphrases using Tarsnap’s scrypt algorithm using Authen::Passphrase::Scrypt
• Get blind signatures via Crypt::RSA::Blind and Crypt::ECDSA::Blind
• Cuckoo::Filter is a Cuckoo Filter implementation in perl
• Geo::Compass::Variation can accurately calculate magnetic declination and inclination

Web

• Don’t get banned! Throttle requests to a site with LWP::UserAgent::Throttled
• Get JSON Web token auth with Plack using Plack::Middleware::Auth::JWT
• Store sessions in Redis using Plack::Session::Store::RedisFast
• Rapi::Blog is a RapidApp-powered blog. Also see Henry’s TPC NA talk
• Template::Compiled compiles templates into coderefs
• Automate the Chrome browser using WWW::Mechanize::Chrome

This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.