What's new on CPAN - September 2015

Oct 1, 2015 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!

Module of the month

MsgPack::RPC is a client for the MessagePack-RPC standard. It’s fully featured, providing send, notify, event subscription and logging.

Module author Yanick Champoux has blogged about his motivations for developing MsgPack::RPC to use it with Neovim. His entertaining musings are a good read. Now you can get an API to Neovim using his other new module, Neovim::RPC. Awesome work!

APIs & Apps

API::Client is a general-purpose API client class
Get simple OATH authentication with App::OATH
App::p5stack manages your dependencies and Perl requirements in a local directory. Looks useful for standalone projects, packaging etc
Net::PhotoBackup::Server - everyone backs up their photos right?
Rarbg::torrentapi is a Wrapper around Rarbg torrentapi
WWW::Zotero provides a Perl interface to the Zotero API
WebService::Scaleway is a Perl interface to Scaleway, the cloud VPN provider

Config & Devops

Config::Station looks interesting: class-based; it can load configurations from files and the environment

Data

Log all DBI queries with DBI::Log. Awesome!
DBIx::TempDB creates temporary databases for testing - supports Postgres, MySQL, SQLite
Render data structures for easy grepping using Data::Crumbr
Diachronic collocation index using DiaColloDB. Don’t know what this is, but it looks interesting.
Image::JpegMinimal creates JPEG previews without headers.
MarpaX::RFC::RFC3987 parse and validate IRIs with this Marpa module
Message::String a “pragma” to declare and organise messaging.
Brat::Handler is a Perl module for managing Brat files.

Development & Version Control

Class::Anonymous get private classes with private data “for realz”.
This looks like a useful analysis tool; Devel::Trace::Subs tracks code flow and stack traces.
Do acceptance testing for JSON-Schema based validators with Test::JSON::Schema::Acceptance
Yes!! Retry test functions on failure using Test::Retry

Hardware

Perl extension for Device::Modem::SMSModem
A driver for the Pertelian X2040 USB LCD with Device::Pertelian

Other

Easily tie database data to Gtk2 / Wx based apps using Gtk2::Ex::DbLinker::DbTools
Eliminate an entire email thread with Mail::ThreadKiller

Science & Mathematics

Image::Libpuzzle provides a Perl interface to libpuzzle - the image similarity library
Bio::Tradis can Bio-Tradis contains a set of tools to analyze the output from TraDIS analyses
Manipulate RGB tuples with Number::RGB
Time::Date appears to be the simplest date time implementation in Perl yet. I wonder what the limitations are?

Web

Create a JSON View that owns its own data with Catalyst::View::JSON::PerRequest
Add templates to the Data Section of Catalyst views using Catalyst::View::MicroTemplate::DataSection
Replay terminal captures in your Dancer app using Dancer::Plugin::Showterm
Future::Mojo let’s you use futures with Mojo::IOLoop. Very cool!
The arms-race for faster continues! Replace HTTP::Headers and HTTP::Headers::Fast with HTTP::XSHeaders
Mercury is an application broker class

Tags

cpan