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NAME

App::ListRevDeps - List reverse dependencies of a Perl module

VERSION

This document describes version 0.08 of App::ListRevDeps (from Perl distribution App-ListRevDeps), released on 2014-05-27.

SYNOPSIS

 # Use via list-rev-deps CLI script

DESCRIPTION

Currently uses MetaCPAN API and also scrapes the MetaCPAN website and by default caches results for 24 hours.

FUNCTIONS

list_rev_deps(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

List reverse dependencies of a Perl module.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • cache => bool (default: 1)

    Whether to cache API results for some time, for performance.

  • exclude_re => str

    Specify dist pattern to exclude.

  • level => int (default: 1)

    Specify how many levels up to check (-1 means unlimited).

  • module* => array

    Perl module(s) to check.

  • raw => bool (default: 0)

    Return raw result.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

ENVIRONMENT

  • LOG_API_RESPONSE (bool)

    If enabled, will log raw API response (at trace level).

SEE ALSO

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-ListRevDeps.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-App-ListRevDeps.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-ListRevDeps

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Steven Haryanto.

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