What's new on CPAN - May 2018

Jun 3, 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

• Access the AcousticBrainz API using WebService::AcousticBrainz
• Add, modify and delete products from the Bing Merchant Center platform using Bing::ContentAPI
• Qgoda is a new static site generator with a fancy website
• WebService::Pokemon is another interface for the Pokémon API
• WebService::RESTCountries provides a Perly interface to the REST Countries API
• WebService::Swapi interfaces with the Star Wars API

Config & Devops

• Docker::Registry is a client for talking to Docker Registries
• IO::K8s provides objects representing things in the Kubernetes API
• Kubectl::CLIWrapper Module to use the Kubernetes API via the kubectl CLI

Data

• Add support for window functions to DBIx::Class using DBIx::Class::Helper::ResultSet::WindowFunctions
• Path::Class::Tiny has the interface of Path::Class but uses Path::Tiny under the hood

Development & Version Control

• Acme::UNIVERSAL::can::t is a brilliant module: use it to discover which methods an object can’t do :-)
• App::Prove::Plugin::TermTable sets the size of the console for Term::Table (useful for Test2 based tests)
• “The beginning of a Perl universe” - Dot is a new object system for Perl
• Run code and optinally reverse it with Eval::Reversible
• JavaScript::V8::CommonJS provides module loading support to https://metacpan.org/pod/JavaScript::V8
• Test2::Tools::JSON::Pointer can compare parts of a JSON string to a data structure using JSON pointers
• Skip tests until a date is reached using Test2::Tools::SkipUntil
• Types::Bool provides boolean object types for Perl

Hardware

• RPi::RTC::DS3231 is an interface to the DS3231 Real-Time Clock IC over I2C

Science & Mathematics

• App::Sandy is a bioinformatic tool to generate single/paired ends for a fasta file
• Store and check password using Argon2 with Authen::Passphrase::Argon2

Web

• Manage a hierarchy of Data::MuForm classes with Data::MuFormX::Registry
• Mojo::SAML is a SAML2 toolkit using the Mojo stack
• Stor is file storage retrieval API implemented over HTTP
• TaskPipe is a YAML-driven framework for managing scrapers