Parse::CPAN::Cached - Parse CPAN meta files & cache the results
Version 0.02
Ensure you already have a CPAN::Mini mirror setup, then:
use Parse::CPAN::Cached; my $parsers = Parse::CPAN::Cached->new(); # $authors is a Parse::CPAN::Authors (or Parse::CPAN::Whois) object my $authors = $parsers->parse_cpan('authors'); # $distributions is a Parse::CPAN::Packages object my $distributions = $parsers->parse_cpan('packages');
Parsing the CPAN meta data files can take a few seconds if you do it normally:
my $p = Parse::CPAN::Packages->new($filename);
this wraps the parsing/loading with App::Cache which in turn stores the initial parse in a storable file.
Provided the cache hasn't expired, subsequent calls are loaded from this storable file rather than being re-parsed from the original cpan metadata file. If the cache has expired, we re-parse the source.
This is probably redundant unless you are repeatadly opening these files (in different processes perhaps).
Note: 02packages.details.txt.gz (circa 2009-03) is ~730KB on disk but 13MB as a (App::Cached generated) Storable file. We're trading disk & memory for speed.
All are optional.
Defaults to the result of calling CPAN::Mini->read_config. We only use the 'local' value returned, so you could say:
my $parsers = Parse::CPAN::Cached->new( cpan_mini_config => { local => '/path/to/mini_cpan/' } );
Defaults to App::Cache->new(). If you want to change any of the defaults in App::Cache, construct your own App::Cache first and pass it in.
A coderef that is called to emit some information about what is going on. By default, we're silent under normal operation but if you want a little more detail about what is happening pass in a coderef that accepts a single string parameter.
my $parsers = Parse::CPAN::Cached->new( info => sub { warn @_, "\n" } );
Currently the only time this is used is when we're about to parse one of the cpan meta data files form scratch, rather than loading in the data via the cache.
There is only one.
Give it the key, get back the appropriate Parse::CPAN::Foo object.
my $parsers = Parse::CPAN::Cached->new(); my $result = $parsers->parse_cpan($key);
Where $key is one of:
Returns a Parse::CPAN::Packages object.
Returns either a Parse::CPAN::Authors object or a (api compatible) Parse::CPAN::Whois object if the 00whois.xml file exists.
Returns a Parse::CPAN::Whois object.
Sysmon, <sysmonblog at googlemail.com>
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Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-parse-cpan-cached at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Parse-CPAN-Cached. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-parse-cpan-cached at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Parse::CPAN::Cached
RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Parse-CPAN-Cached
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/Parse-CPAN-Cached
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Parse-CPAN-Cached
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-CPAN-Cached
Copyright 2009 Sysmon, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Parse::CPAN::Cached, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Parse::CPAN::Cached
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Parse::CPAN::Cached
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.