What's new on CPAN - August 2017

Sep 8, 2017 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

• Android::ADB is a thin wrapper over the adb command
• API::Drip::Request provides a Perl interface to api.getdrip.com, the email marketer
• Use Google’s Safe Browsing v4 API with Net::Google::SafeBrowsing4
• WebService::AntiCaptcha provides a Perl interface to the captcha-defeating service
• Use Threat Stack’s security and compliance API with WebService::ThreatStack
• Game::Tibia::Cam can parse the MMORPG TibiCam files and convert them to pcaps
• Use the Gnome IO library (GIO) with Perl using Glib::IO
• WWW::Subsonic provides an interface to the Subsonic media server API

Data

• Parse binary netflow data with Data::Netflow
• Tired of object dumps polluting the terminal? Data::Tersify reduces the output to something useful
• FormValidator::Tiny is a teeny but useful data validator
• Parse JSON containing JavaScript-style comments using JSON::WithComments
• Use Tarantool’s RTREE data indexing functions in Perl with DR::R

Development & Version Control

• Use Railway Oriented Programming for error handling, and simplify your code with Error::ROP
• Getopt::EX supports user defined options and additional parameter processing logic
• Simplify attribute declarations with MooX::ShortHas and Mu
• Share objects between processes using Patro
• PerlX::AsyncAwait async/await keywords in pure Perl, comes with author safety warning ☢
• Include Pod from other files with nice syntax using Pod::Weaver::Plugin::Include
• Test::Alien::CPP provides testing tools for C++ Alien modules
• Render a table like “docker ps” does with Text::Yeti::Table
• XS::Check can detect common errors in XS files

Hardware

• Device::Chip::AnalogConverters is a collection of chip drivers
• Get a Perl interface to libusb with USB::LibUSB

Science & Mathematics

• Finance::Loan::Repayment is a simple loan calculator
• Use polyline algorithms with Math::Vector::Real::Polyline
• Calculate the Shannon entropy H of a given input string using Shannon::Entropy

Web

• Mojo::DOM::Role::PrettyPrinter can pretty print DOMs
• Parse and encode XMLRPC messages using the Mojo stack via Mojo::XMLRPC
• MojoX::Validate::Util provides a collection of data validation routines
• Use Futures in Mojo applications with Mojolicious::Plugin::Future
• OpenAPI::Client is a client for talking to an Open API server
• Check HTTP response bodies are zipped with WWW::CheckGzip