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📛 NAME

CPAN::Meta::Validator – validate CPAN distribution metadata structures

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔍 Validate a metadata structure	my $cmv = CPAN::Meta::Validator->new( $struct );	Create a validator object from a decoded META structure
✅ Check validity	$cmv->is_valid	Returns boolean indicating whether the metadata is valid
📋 Retrieve errors	$cmv->errors	Returns a list of validation error messages

🔖 VERSION

version 2.150010

📋 SYNOPSIS

  my $struct = decode_json_file('META.json');

  my $cmv = CPAN::Meta::Validator->new( $struct );

  unless ( $cmv->is_valid ) {
    my $msg = "Invalid META structure.  Errors found:\n";
    $msg .= join( "\n", $cmv->errors );
    die $msg;
  }

📖 DESCRIPTION

This module validates a CPAN Meta structure against the version of the specification claimed in the meta-spec field of the structure.

🛠️ METHODS

⚙️ new

  my $cmv = CPAN::Meta::Validator->new( $struct )

The constructor must be passed a metadata structure.

✅ is_valid

  if ( $cmv->is_valid ) {
    ...
  }

Returns a boolean value indicating whether the metadata provided is valid.

📋 errors

  warn( join "\n", $cmv->errors );

Returns a list of errors seen during validation.

🐛 BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature using the CPAN Request Tracker. Bugs can be submitted through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=CPAN-Meta

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.

👥 AUTHORS

• David Golden <dagolden AT cpan.org>
• Ricardo Signes <rjbs AT cpan.org>
• Adam Kennedy <adamk AT cpan.org>

©️ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by David Golden, Ricardo Signes, Adam Kennedy and Contributors.

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

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