Changes for version 0.38 - 2026-08-22
- Enhancements
- HTML URL backend: new url => 'https://...' constructor parameter fetches a remote HTML page with LWP::UserAgent, extracts a <table> element via HTML::TableExtract, and slurps it into the same in-memory data structure used by CSV/XML slurp; the first row of the table is treated as column headers; html_table_index (default 0) selects which table on the page to use; directory is not required when url is given; both LWP::UserAgent and HTML::TableExtract are loaded lazily (only when url is given); the URL is validated in new() against /\Ahttps?:\/\// at construction time (ftp://, file://, javascript: and all other schemes are rejected); all in-memory fast-paths (selectall_arrayref, selectall_array, fetchrow_hashref, count, AUTOLOAD, columns, schema) work without modification; type is set to 'HTML'; no DBI handle is created; t/html.t covers keyed and no_entry modes, html_table_index selection, AUTOLOAD lookup, repeated-call fetch-once guard, and all error paths
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Read-only Database Abstraction Layer (ORM)
Fluent, chainable query builder for Database::Abstraction