What's new on CPAN - October 2019

Nov 16, 2019 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

• Azure::Storage::Blob::Client can store blogs via the Azure API
• Google::RestApi opens an Oauth2 connection to Google APIs and includes modules for working with Drive and Sheets
• Find corresponding GitHub issues for RT numbers with Perl::RT2Github
• Net::Kafka aims to be a high-performant client for Apache Kafka
• WWW::Deduce::Ingest is an interface to the (undocumented?) Deduce Ingestion API

Config & Devops

• Generate bash tools from YAML with appspec-bash
• Dir::Flock provides a typical file locking mechanism, but on directories. Bonus! it works on NFS

Data

• DBIx::Class::ParseError parses database errors into DBIx::Class::Exception objects
• Eval(!) Perl code found in JSON using JSON::Eval
• MySQL::Dump::Parser::XS is a fast mysqldump parser
• Parse a typical search engine query string using Parqus
• Escapes strings into RTF with RTF::Encode

Development & Version Control

• IIIF Image API implementation - IIIF
• Get bindings for librtmidi the Realtime MIDI library with MIDI::RtMidi::FFI
• MP4::LibMP4v2 provides a Perl interface to libmp4v2
• With::Roles can compose roles into classes, objects and compound roles
• Import methods to be used like keywords using methods::import

Science & Mathematics

• Algorithm::Odometer::Tiny generates “base-N odometer” permutations
• Math::DCT can do 1D and NxN 2D Fast Discreet Cosine Transforms (DCT-II)

Web

• Mojo::HTTPStatus exports readable constants for HTTP response status codes
• Mojo::Promise::Role::Repeat provides a Promise looping construct with break
• Mojolicious::Command::bcrypt bcrypt a password using the settings in your Mojolicious app.