NAME
VERSION
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
USAGE
- Mapping NNTP IDs to GUIDs
  - nntp_to_guid
  - guid_to_nntp
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

NAME

CPAN::Testers::Common::Utils - Utility functions for CPAN Testers modules

VERSION

version 0.002

SYNOPSIS

     use CPAN::Testers::Common::Utils ':all';
 
     # NNTP ID <=> GUID mapping
     $guid    = nntp_to_guid( $nntp_id );
     $nntp_id = guid_to_nntp( $guid    );

DESCRIPTION

This module contains common utility functions for use by other CPAN Testers modules

USAGE

Mapping NNTP IDs to GUIDs

Legacy CPAN Testers reports were sent via email and made available via an NNTP group, C<perl.cpan.testers>. Reports were 'indexed' by their NNTP ID. The next generation of CPAN Testers uses a GUID URN to identify reports.

Old reports with an NNTP ID are mapped to GUIDs by replacing the first 8 hex characters of a common 'base GUID' with a zero-padded decimal representation of the NNTP ID.

   XXXXXXXX-b19f-3f77-b713-d32bba55d77f

Such GUID URNs are visually distinctive and have the nice feature of sorting earlier than second-generated report GUIDs based on a timestamp.

Two translation functions are provided for convenience.

`nntp_to_guid`

     $guid    = nntp_to_guid( $nntp_id );

Given a numeric NNTP ID, returns a standard string-form GUID. (No range checking is done.) Examples:

   nntp_to_guid( 51432   );  # 00051432-b19f-3f77-b713-d32bba55d77f
   nntp_to_guid( 6171265 );  # 06171265-b19f-3f77-b713-d32bba55d77f

`guid_to_nntp`

     $guid    = nntp_to_guid( $nntp_id );

Given a GUID string of the form described above, returns the decimal number in the first 8 characaters. Examples:

   guid_to_nntp( '00051432-b19f-3f77-b713-d32bba55d77f' ); # 51432
   guid_to_nntp( '06171265-b19f-3f77-b713-d32bba55d77f' ); # 6171265

If the GUID string is not derived from the base GUID, this function returns undef.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests using the CPAN Request Tracker web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=CPAN-Testers-Common-Utils

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

  David A Golden <dagolden@cpan>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004

CPAN-Testers-Common-Utils-0.002