NAME

CPAN::Reporter::History - Read or write a CPAN::Reporter history log

VERSION

This documentation refers to version 1.1707

SYNOPSIS

     use CPAN::Reporter::History 'have_tested';
 
     @results = have_tested( dist => 'Dist-Name-1.23' );

DESCRIPTION

Interface for interacting with the CPAN::Reporter history file. Most methods are private for use only within CPAN::Reporter itself. However, a public function is provided to query the history file for results.

USAGE

The following function is available. It is not exported by default.

have_tested()

     # all reports for Foo-Bar-1.23
     @results = have_tested( dist => 'Foo-Bar-1.23' );
 
     # all NA reports
     @results = have_tested( grade => 'NA' );
 
     # all reports on the current Perl/platform
     @results = have_tested();

Searches the CPAN::Reporter history file for records exactly matching search criteria, given as pairs of field-names and desired values.

Ordinary search criteria include:

• dist -- the distribution tarball name without any filename suffix; from a CPAN::Distribution object, this is provided by the base_id method.

• phase -- phase the report was generated during: either 'PL', 'make' or 'test'

• grade -- CPAN Testers grade: 'PASS', 'FAIL', 'NA' or'UNKNOWN'; Also may be 'DISCARD' for any failing reports not sent due to missing prerequisites

Without additional criteria, a search will be limited to the current version of Perl and the current architecture and OS version. Additional criteria may be specified explicitly or, by specifying the empty string, q{}, will match that field for any record.

     # all reports for Foo-Bar-1.23 on any version of perl 
     # on the current architecture and OS version
     @results = have_tested( dist => 'Foo-Bar-1.23', perl => q{} );

These additional criteria include:

• perl -- perl version and possible patchlevel; this will be dotted decimal (5.6.2) starting with version 5.6, or will be numeric style as given by $] for older versions; if a patchlevel exists, it must be specified similar to "5.11.0 patch 12345"

• archname -- platform architecture name as given by $Config{archname}

• osvers -- operating system version as given by $Config{osvers}

The function returns an array of hashes representing each test result, with all of the fields listed above.

SEE ALSO

• CPAN::Reporter

• CPAN::Reporter::FAQ

AUTHOR

David A. Golden (DAGOLDEN)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, 2008 by David A. Golden

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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