SYNOPSIS

use App::CPANTS::Lint;
my $app = App::CPANTS::Lint->new(verbose => 1);
$app->lint('path/to/Foo-Dist-1.42.tgz') or print $app->report;
# if you need raw data
$app->lint('path/to/Foo-Dist-1.42.tgz') or return $app->result;
# if you need to look at the details of analysis
$app->lint('path/to/Foo-Dist-1.42.tgz');
print Data::Dumper::Dumper($app->stash);

DESCRIPTION

App::CPANTS::Lint is a core of "cpants_lint.pl" script to check the Kwalitee of a distribution. See the script for casual usage. You can also use this from other modules for finer control.

METHODS

new

Takes an optional hash (which will be passed into Module::CPANTS::Analyse internally) and creates a linter object.

Available options are:

verbose

Makes Module::CPANTS::Analyse verbose. False by default.

core_only

If true, the "lint" method (see below) returns true even if "extra" metrics (as well as "experimental" metrics) fail. This may be useful if you only care Kwalitee rankings. False by default.

experimental

If true, failed "experimental" metrics are also reported (via "report" method). False by default. Note that "experimental" metrics are not taken into account while calculating a score.

save

If true, "output_report" method writes to a file instead of writing to STDOUT.

dump, yaml, json

If true, "report" method returns a formatted dump of the stash (see below).

search_path

If you'd like to use extra metrics modules, pass a reference to an array of their parent namespace(s) to search. Metrics modules under Module::CPANTS::Kwalitee namespace are always used.

lint

Takes a path to a distribution tarball and analyses it. Returns true if the distribution has no significant issues (experimental metrics are always ignored). Otherwise, returns false.

Note that the result doesn't always match with what is shown at the CPANTS website, because there are metrics that are only available at the site for various reasons (some of them require database connection, and some are not portable enough).

report

Returns a report string that contains the details of failed metrics (even if "lint" method returns true) and a Kwalitee score.

If "dump" (or "yaml", "json") is set when you create an App::CPANTS::Lint object, "report" returns a formatted dump of the stash.

result

Returns a reference to a hash that contains the details of failed metrics and a Kwalitee score. Internal structure may change without notice, but it always has an ``ok'' field (which holds a return value of "lint" method) at least.

stash

Returns a reference to a hash that contains the details of analysis (stored in a stash in Module::CPANTS::Analyse). Internal structure may change without notice, but it always has a ``kwalitee'' field (which holds a reference to a hash that contains the result of each metric) at least.

score

Returns a Kwalitee score.

output_report

Writes a report to STDOUT (or to a file).

report_file

Returns a path to a report file, which should have the same distribution name with a version, plus an extension appropriate to the output format. (eg. "Foo-Bar-1.42.txt", "Foo-Bar-1.42.yml" etc)

AUTHOR

Kenichi Ishigaki, <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Kenichi Ishigaki.

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