Perl Modules
by
Mark Overmeer
These are all of my
Perl modules, mostly distributed via CPAN.
2018: I am in the process of moving all my development work to
GIT (on github).
All software listed here is copyright Mark Overmeer.
The code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself. See
http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
Please complain when you find bugs! For all support questions, you can mail me at markov@cpan.org.
As self-employed programmer, I welcome any financial means to improve, extend, or support these products.
Per group of modules, there may be a browseable set of manuals, which (in my opinion) have much better links and overview than the standard Perl manual pages in POD format. Try them!
The bold faced modules are important: they have many users. When the name is lined through, then the code is still availabled here, but the distribution withdrawn (not maintained anymore)
| CPAN-Site | Create local extensions to the CPAN module list, to
simplify the distribution of private modules over your own
internal computer infrastructure. A bit like cpanmini. |
src | cpan | github |
| Hash-Case | Various kinds of case-insensitive hashes. For instance some databases ignore case differences, and it is useful to represent these external short-comings in a Perl data-type. | src | cpan | github |
| Math-Formula | Configation files with formulas: powerfull expressions. | src | cpan | github |
| OODoc | Perl's standard POD does not help you documenting Object Oriented programs. OODoc improves POD (a lot), especially useful for distributions with many large modules. Startingpoint and html docs. | src | cpan | github |
| OODoc-Template | Minimal template system, as everyone made one. Used by OODoc to configure the output of the HTML pages. | src | cpan | github |
| PPresenter | Portable Presenter is used to create presentations with Perl/Tk. Write slides as objects in a perl-program, and have them displayed on multiple screen at the same time, or as website. Very (too?) powerful. Discontinued: no users. (docs in html) | src | x | x |
| Tie-Nested | Nested data-structures which get tied automatically when they grow. | src | cpan | github |
"Thick" (capable) interfaces to various databases.
| Apache-Solr | HTTP interface to the Solr full text search engine. It abstracts the datatypes of the parameter. | src | cpan | github |
| Couch-DB | Thick interface to Apache CouchDB: a large abstraction hiding the HTTP/JSON traffic. | src | cpan | github |
Some modules for Internet services, like DNS.
| HTML-Inspect | Extract information from HTML pages. | src | cpan | github |
| MailTools | Ancient set of various e-mail related packages from various authors. Unfortunately, these are still being used in code and in explained in books, so need to be maintained. Please use MailBox! | src | cpan | github |
| MIME-Types | Knowledge database about mime-types, which are used in various Internet protocols like e-mail and HTTP. (docs in html) | src | cpan | github |
| Mozilla-Persona | Website authorization via Mozilla's "Persona" protocol. Discontinued by Mozilla. | src | x | x |
| Net-Domain-TMCH | Read and write TradeMark ClearingHouse messages (signed XML), which TLDs use to block registration of domains which have a trademark. Used by the AT-TLD. | src | cpan | todo |
| Net-FTP-Robust | Extend basic Net::FTP with error recovery and retry. | src | cpan | github |
| Net-FTPSSL-Robust | Extend basic Net::FTPSSL with error recovery and retry. | src | cpan | github |
| Net-OAuth2 | Generic OAuth2 implementation. 2021-09-22: Passed on maintenance to Uhle. | src | cpan | github |
| Net-Whois-SIDN | SIDN (the NL-TLD) publishes whois information via a SOAP interface in XML to registered users. Status unknown. | x | cpan | x |
One of my larger applications is an archiving system for raw satellite imagery. Quite a number dists were created as spin-off. However: the archive does not exist anymore, so I have no need to improve this code. I will fix bugs and may apply your extensions.
| Math-Polygon | Some basic manipulations with polygons in pure Perl, which I mainly use for manipulation geographic shapes. | src | cpan | github |
| Geo-EOP | XML Standard for describing Earth Observation Products. Discontinued: followed-up by version 2.0, which the module does not support. | src | x | x |
| Geo-Format-Envisat | Understand the meta-data of Envisat products. | src | cpan | github |
| Geo-Format-Landsat | Understand the meta-data of Landsat products. | src | cpan | github |
| Geo-GML | Reading and writing Geographic Markup Language (GML) files, with support to convert them into Geo::Point structures. | src | cpan | github |
| Geo-ISO19139 | Geographic MetaData XML (gmd) encoding. | src | cpan | github |
| Geo-KML | Keyhole Markup Language (GoogleEarth). Discontinued: the official schema does not match reality. | src | x | x |
| Geo-Point | Abstraction of geo-surfaces: it combines X, Y, and coordinate srs into points. Various common features, like reprojections, are provided. | src | cpan | github |
| Geo-Proj4 | XS wrapper around the popular Open Source "libproj4" library, which converts points between projection systems. | src | cpan | github |
| Geo-WKT | Convert between Geo::Point and the Well Known Text (WKT) notation of geographical structures. WKT is, for instance, used in databases. | src | cpan | github |
The MailBox suite is a very feature rich set of modules capable of processing emails. MailBox is in active (commercial) use for many years. See starting point, overview, feature index, and mailinglist
| HTML-FromMail | Produce HTML from e-mail messages via your own templates. | src | cpan | github |
| Mail-Box | Abstraction of handling email folders, in the popular mbox, mh, and maildir structures. | src | cpan | github |
| Mail-Box-IMAP4 | Support IMAP4 mail servers in MailBox. | src | cpan | github |
| Mail-Box-Parser-C | Implementation of parsing MBOX files in XS. This is a measurable improvement of performance, but MailBox is also pretty fast without it. | src | cpan | github |
| Mail-Box-POP3 | Support POP3(s) mail servers in MailBox | src | cpan | github |
| Mail-Message | Very powerful email message parser, builder, processor. Deep understanding of header fields. | src | cpan | github |
| Mail-Transport | Send Mail::Message (and many other) messages, to various MTAs. | src | cpan | github |
| Object-Realize-Later | Creates a stub object which can be used to auto-load objects on the moment of first use, in stead of when they are defined. | src | cpan | github |
| User-Identity | Many applications need to keep information about people. This modules tries to provide smart defaults and often used needs, like printing addresses. | src | cpan | github |
In my experience, exception handling, reporting, and translations are very closely related: without Log::Report you have to join these three components together yourself. With LogReport, you can do it in any or all of these at once. Starting point
| Log-Report | Integrate (error) message dispatching with translations. Not the programmer decides how the problems are solved, but the developer of the main program. Writes to screen, file, syslog, or log4perl. | src | cpan | github |
| Log-Report-Lexicon | The optional translation component of Log::Report. | src | cpan | github |
| Log-Report-Optional | Support Log::Report for your module, but do not require it for the whole application. Comparible with Carp. | src | cpan | github |
| Log-Report-Template | Extend Template Toolkit with translations and other smart features of Log::Report/String::Print | src | cpan | github |
| String-Print | This is sprintf on steroids: extremely flexible
string interpolation, which also makes translation tables simpler
to understand. |
src | cpan | github |
Build a translator from (typeless) Perl into (strictly typed) XML and reverse. Most work is done at initiation, running is fast. Also, the base for SOAP and many extensions in other categories on this page. Starting point
| XML-Compile | Understand XML Schema's (XSDs). Generate Perl-to-XML, XML-to-Perl, and XML-to-examples for schema types. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-C14N | Normalization schema's for XML messages. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-Cache | Simplify the use of the XML::Compile::Schema, with prefixes and code reference caching. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-Dumper | Dumper compiled converters produced by XML::Compile. The output is huge and therefore not practical. Deprecated. | src | cpan | ? |
| XML-Compile-Licensed | Some modules, like the ::Daemon, may use schema's which have an unclear or non-open license. To be able to create (Debian) packages for those modules, the uncertain elements are grouped in this distrubtion. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-RPC | Although there is no official schema for (non-SOAP) Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), it was doable to create one. Now, static typing of XML::Compile simplifies RPC a lot. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-SOAP | Implements the SOAP 1.1 protocol based on XML::Compile, so with strict type. Only really simple for document style SOAP. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-SOAP-AnyEvent | Extension for SOAP clients to be Any::Event based, so requests are able to run in parallel. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-SOAP-Daemon | Run a SOAP server. Ideal for testing, but also professional applications. Integrates with various servers. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-SOAP-Mojolicious | Extension for SOAP clients to use Mojolicious events, so requests will run in parallel. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-SOAP12 | Implements the SOAP 1.2 protocol based on XML::Compile. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-Tester | Helper to test XML modules. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-WSA | Adds the Web Services Addressing standard to SOAP and WSDL. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-WSDL11 | Implements the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) version 1.1, which describes (mainly) SOAP services. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-WSS | Adds the Web Services Security extension framework to SOAP and WSDL. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Compile-WSS-Signatures | Adds WSS Signatures to SOAP and WSDL, which is complicated cryptography. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-Rewrite | Rewrite XMLs (may even be schema's) based on schema's. | src | cpan | github |
Above are "XML core technologies". Here a lists of XML applications. Besides, there are quite a number of XML protocols in my "Geo" category.
| BPM-XPDL | Standard to describe business and process information in XML. | src | cpan | ? |
| Business-CAMT | Processing ISO20022 CAMT (Cash Management) banking messages. | src | cpan | github |
| Data-DublinCore | Standard to describe publication related meta-data. | src | cpan | todo |
| Google-Merchant | Client for Google's Merchant interface (publish shopping products). Discontinued: server messages do not always validate. | src | x | x |
| Payment-Sisow | SOAP-Client to the Sisow payment provider. Their REST interface is far more powerful, but SOAP is well-defined. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-eXistDB | Client for the "eXist" database, which stores data as xml documents, using xquery to retreive and update them. | src | cpan | github |
| XML-LibXML-Simple | Drop-in replacement for XML::Simple: it uses libxml2 as
parser via XML::LibXML, which is much faster and better than
pure perl. |
src | cpan | github |
UNIX/Linux is a perfect playground. Perl offers many of the OS features on a pure-enough interface to implement complex system tasks.
| Any-Daemon | A full featured generic daemon implementation, waiting to handle your tasks. | src | cpan | github |
| Any-Daemon-HTTP | HTTP server in pure perl, with many feature you know from Apache and other webservers. | src | cpan | github |
| HTTP-Server-Multiplex | Event driven implementation of an HTTP server. | src | cpan | ? |
| IOMux | Very clean abstraction of the select and poll OS functions. | src | cpan | github |
| IOMux-HTTP | Webserver based on IOMux. | src | cpan | ? |
| POSIX-1003 | Attempt to provide all functions which are described in the POSIX 1003 (and related standards) to Perl. More than 1000 functions and many thousands of constants. | src | cpan | todo |
| POSIX-Util | Abstraction of often used more complex OS logic into Perl. | src | cpan | todo |