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NAME

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

VERSION

version 0.003

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, 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 characters. 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.

SEE ALSO

SUPPORT

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at https://github.com/cpan-testers/CPAN-Testers-Common-Utils/issues. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue.

Source Code

This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.

https://github.com/cpan-testers/CPAN-Testers-Common-Utils

git clone https://github.com/cpan-testers/CPAN-Testers-Common-Utils.git

AUTHOR

David A Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTOR

Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 <daxim@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2015 by David A Golden.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004