MetaCPAN::Client::Release(3)

NAME
MetaCPAN::Client::Release - A Release data object

VERSION
version 2.038000

SYNOPSIS
my $release = $mcpan->release('Moose');

DESCRIPTION
A MetaCPAN release entity object.

ATTRIBUTES

  status
The release's status, "latest", "cpan", or "backpan".

  name
The release's name, something like "Moose-1.23".

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

  author
The PAUSE ID of the author who uploaded the release.

  maturity
This will be either "released" or "developer".

  main_module
The release's main module name.

  id
The release's internal MetaCPAN id.

  authorized
A boolean indicating whether or not this was an authorized release.

  download_url
A URL for this release's distribution archive file.

  checksum_sha256
The sha256 hexdigest for this release's distribution archive file.

  checksum_md5
The md5 hexdigest for this release's distribution archive file.

  first
A boolean indicating whether or not this is the first release of this distribution.

  archive
The filename of the archive file for this release.

  version
The release's version.

  version_numified
The numified form of the release's version.

  deprecated
The deprecated field value for this release.

  distribution
The name of the distribution to which this release belongs. Something like "Moose"

  abstract
The abstract from this release's metadata.

  dependency
This is an arrayref of hashrefs. Each hashref contains the following keys:

•   phase

    The phase to which this dependency belongs. This will be one of "configure", "build", "runtime", "test", or "develop".

•   relationship

    This will be one of "requires", "recommends", or "suggests".

•   module

    The name of the module which is depended on.

•   version

    The required version of the dependency. This may be 0, indicating that any version is acceptable.

  license
An arrayref containing the license(s) under which this release has been made available. These licenses are represented by strings like "perl_5" or "gpl2".

  provides
This an arrayref containing a list of all the modules provided by this distribution.

  metadata
This is a hashref containing metadata provided by the distribution. The exact contents of this hashref will vary across CPAN, but should largely conform to the spec defined by CPAN::Meta::Spec.

  resources
The resources portion of the release's metadata, returned as a hashref.

  stat
A hashref containing stat() all information about the release's archive 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.

  tests
Returns a hashref of information about CPAN testers results for this release. The keys are "pass", "fail", "unknown", and "na". The values are the count of that particular result on CPAN Testers for this release.

METHODS

  changes
Returns the Changes text for the release.

  metacpan_url
Returns a link to the release page on MetaCPAN.

  contributors
Returns a structure with release contributors info.

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.