What's new on CPAN - March 2020

Apr 29, 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

• Get a colorful calendar in the terminal with App::week
• Google::reCAPTCHA::v3 is another Google captcha module
• GraphQL::Client … is a GraphQL client
• Masscan::Scanner makes it easy to use the masscan port scanner.
• Make non-blocking requests to LastFM with Mojo::WebService::LastFM
• Use Telegram’s Bot API with Net::API::Telegram
• Net::OpenVAS let’s you program Greenbone’s OpenVAS platform with Perl
• Use Elasticsearch 6.x APIs with Search::Elasticsearch::Client::6_0

Config & Devops

• Block::NJH is interesting; add it to your CPAN distribution to “prevent your tests from running on NJH’s broken smokers”
• Config::Structured provides “generalized and structured configuration value access”
• Ping a database handle to check its health using HealthCheck::Diagnostic::DBHPing
• HealthCheck::Diagnostic::FilePermissions checks filepaths for expected permissions

Data

• DB::Object is a database abstraction built on top of DBI
• Inspect DBIC objects in a compact format using Data::Tersify::Plugin::DBIx::Class
• MIME::Base32::XS is a faster Base32 encoder/decoder
• Statistics::Covid fetches and manages Covid-19 statistics
• Get a Postgresql mock server for testing via Test::PostgreSQL::Docker
• Bind Perl data structures into XML with XML::BindData
• XML::Minifier is a configurable XML minifier

Development & Version Control

• Devel::Wherefore helps debug Perl: “Where the heck did these subroutines come from?”
• Create relative symbolic links File::Symlink::Relative
• Module::Generic is another class library, it uses AUTOLOAD for getter/setter methods
• new saves you from typing module names twice in one liners

Science & Mathematics

• Bio::DB::Taxonomy::sqlite stores and manages NCBI data using sqlite
• Math::Polynomial::Chebyshev creates Chebyshev polynomials

Web

• Store Catalyst sessions in Redis with Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::RedisFast
• Not a traditional distribution, but Mojo::Server::AWSLambda contains a simple example of how to define an AWS Lambda function which uses Mojo
• Mojolicious::Plugin::Sticker combines Mojo apps into a single app