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Acme-CPANAuthors-0.27
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/ Acme::CPANAuthors::Utils::Packages

NAME

Acme::CPANAuthors::Utils::Packages

SYNOPSIS

use Acme::CPANAuthors::Utils::Packages;

# you can't pass the raw content of 02packages.details.txt(.gz)
my $packages = Acme::CPANAuthors::Utils::Packages->new(
  'cpan/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
);

my $package = $packages->package('Acme::CPANAuthors');

my $dist    = $packages->distribution('I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz');

my $latest  = $packages->latest_distribution('Acme-CPANAuthors');

DESCRIPTION

This is a subset of Parse::CPAN::Packages. The reading methods are similar in general (accessors are marked as read-only, though). Internals and data-parsing methods may be different, but you usually don't need to care.

METHODS

new

always takes a file name (both raw .txt file and .txt.gz file name are acceptable). Raw content of the file is not acceptable.

package

takes a name of a package, and returns an object that represents it.

distribution

takes a file name of a distribution, and returns an object that represents it.

latest_distribution

takes a name of a distribution, and returns an object that represents the latest version of it.

packages, distributions, latest_distributions

returns a list of stored packages or (latest) distribution objects.

package_count, distribution_count, latest_distribution_count

returns the number of stored packages or (latest) distributions.

PREAMBLE ACCESSORS

file, url, description, columns, intended_for, written_by, line_count, last_updated

These are accessors to the preamble information of 02packages.details.txt.

PACKAGE ACCESSORS

package (name), version

my $package = $packages->package('Acme::CPANAuthors');
print $package->package, "\n"; # Acme::CPANAuthors
print $package->version, "\n"; # 0.12

distribution

returns an object that represents the distribution that the package belongs to.

DISTRIBUTION ACCESSORS

prefix (path), dist (name), version, maturity, filename, cpanid (pauseid), distvname

my $dist = $packages->distribution('I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz');
print $dist->prefix,"\n";    # I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz
print $dist->dist,"\n";      # Acme-CPANAuthors
print $dist->version,"\n";   # 0.12
print $dist->maturity,"\n";  # released
print $dist->filename,"\n";  # Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz
print $dist->cpanid,"\n";    # ISHIGAKI
print $dist->distvname,"\n"; # Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12

packages (contains)

returns a list of objects that represent the packages the distribution contains. packages method returns it as an array reference, contains returns it as an array.

SEE ALSO

Parse::CPAN::Packages

AUTHOR

Kenichi Ishigaki, <ishigaki@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 by Kenichi Ishigaki.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.