What's new on CPAN - September 2018

Oct 9, 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

• Simple ASCII charting using App::AsciiChart
• App::JsonLogUtils provides command line utilities for dealing with JSON-formatted log files
• Simple interface to the OneSky API: Net::OneSky
• Communicate with the patron data store, Hetula using Hetula::Client
• Signer::AWSv4 can sign AWS requests with v4 signatures without needing an HTTP::Request object

Data

• Data::Exchange can exchange files and update issues from your colleagues via an S3 bucket
• Manage cards and decks using Ordeal::Model
• Convert OpenAPI (swagger) schemas to SQL::Translator schemas with SQL::Translator::Parser::OpenAPI
• Types::PGPLOT Type::Tiny compatible types for the PGPLOT library
• XML::Invisible transform “invisible XML” documents into XML using a grammar
• Get a faster backend for YAML::PP via YAML::PP::LibYAML

Development & Version Control

• Git::IssueManager can manage issues in a git branch within your repository
• Get JSON API-style error objects with JSON::API::Error
• Protocol::DBus D-Bus in pure Perl!

Science & Mathematics

• Astro::Coord::ECI::VSOP87D implements the VSOP87D position model of planetary motion

Web

• Use Email::Address::UseXS to avoid choking on badly formatted input
• Validate HTML with HTML::T5, a fork of HTML::Lint
• Complete with the first fulfilled promise using Mojo::Promise::Role::HigherOrder
• Mojolicious::Plugin::ForwardedFor retrieves the remote address from X-Forwarded-For
• Mojolicious::Plugin::PNGCast can display a screencast from a headless browser or any PNG websocket stream
• Perform concurrent HTTP requests using libcurl with Net::Curl::Parallel