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MetaCPAN-Client-2.019000
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/ MetaCPAN::Client::File

NAME

MetaCPAN::Client::File - A File data object

VERSION

version 2.019000

DESCRIPTION

A MetaCPAN file entity object.

ATTRIBUTES

status

Returns a release status like backpan, cpan, or latest.

date

An ISO8601 datetime string like 2016-11-19T12:41:46 indicating when the file was uploaded.

author

The author's PAUSE id.

maturity

This will be either release or developer.

directory

A boolean indicating whether or not the path represents a directory.

indexed

A boolean indicating whether or not the content is indexed.

documentation

The name of the module for which this file contains docs. This may be undef

id

The file's internal MetaCPAN id.

authorized

A boolean indicating whether or not this file was part of an authorized upload.

version

The distribution version that contains this file.

version_numified

The numified version of the distribution that contains the file.

release

The release that contains this file, which will be something like Moose-2.2004.

binary

A boolean indicating whether or not this file contains binary content.

name

The File's name, without any directory path included.

path

The file's path within the distribution archive, relative to the root of the archive.

abstract

If the file contains POD with a NAME section, then this attribute will include the abstract portion of the name.

description

If the file contains POD with a DESCRIPTION section, then this attribute will contain that description.

distribution

The name of the distribution that contains the file.

level

A 0-indexed indication of how many directories deep this file is, relative to the archive root.

sloc

If the file contains code, this will contain the number of lines of code in the file.

slop

If the file contains POD, this will contain the number of lines of POD in the file.

mime

The file's mime type.

module

If the file contains module indexed by PAUSE, then this attribute contains an arrayref of hashrefs, one for each module. The hashrefs have the following keys:

  • name

    The module name.

  • indexed

    Whether or not the file is indexed by MetaCPAN.

  • authorized

    Whether or not the module is part of an authorized upload.

  • version

    The version of the module that this file contains.

  • version_numified

    The numified version of the module that this file contains.

  • associated_pod

    A path you can use with the MetaCPAN::Client->file method to get the file that contains POD for this module. In most cases, that will be the same file as that one that contains this module data.

pod_lines

An arrayref.

stat

A hashref containing stat() all information about the file. The keys are:

  • mtime

    The Unix epoch of the file's last modified time.

  • mode

    The file's mode (as an integer, not an octal representation).

  • size

    The file's size in bytes.

download_url

A URL for the distribution archive that contains this file.

METHODS

pod

    my $pod = $module->pod(); # default = plain
    my $pod = $module->pod($type);

Returns the POD content for the module/file.

Takes a type as argument.

Supported types: plain, html, x-pod, x-markdown.

source

    my $source = $module->source();

Returns the source code for the file.

metacpan_url

Returns a link to the file source page on MetaCPAN.

AUTHORS

  • Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org>

  • Mickey Nasriachi <mickey@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Sawyer X.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.