Parse::CPAN::Meta - Parse META.yml and other similar CPAN metadata files
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# In your file
---
rootproperty: blah
section:
one: two
three: four
Foo: Bar
empty: ~
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# In your program
use Parse::CPAN::Meta;
# Create a YAML file
my @yaml = Parse::CPAN::Meta::LoadFile( 'Meta.yml' );
# Reading properties
my $root = $yaml[0]->{rootproperty};
my $one = $yaml[0]->{section}->{one};
my $Foo = $yaml[0]->{section}->{Foo};Parse::CPAN::Meta is a parser for META.yml files, based on the parser half of YAML::Tiny.
It supports a basic subset of the full YAML specification, enough to implement parsing of typical META.yml files, and other similarly simple YAML files.
If you need something with more power, move up to a full YAML parser such as YAML, YAML::Syck or YAML::LibYAML.
Parse::CPAN::Meta provides a very simply API of only two functions, based on the YAML functions of the same name. Wherever possible, identical calling semantics are used.
All error reporting is done with exceptions (die'ing).
For maintenance clarity, no functions are exported.
my @yaml = Load( $string );Parses a string containing a valid YAML stream into a list of Perl data structures.
my @yaml = LoadFile( 'META.yml' );Reads the YAML stream from a file instead of a string.
Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Parse-CPAN-Meta
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
YAML, YAML::Syck, Config::Tiny, CSS::Tiny, http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/29427, http://ali.as/
Copyright 2006 - 2009 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.