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# CPAN::Distroprefs

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# CPAN::Distroprefs

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- INTERFACE
- RESULTS
  - Common
  - Errors
  - Successes
- PREFS
- LICENSE

# NAME

CPAN::Distroprefs -- read and match distroprefs

# SYNOPSIS

        use CPAN::Distroprefs;    my %info = (... distribution/environment info ...);    my $finder = CPAN::Distroprefs->find($prefs_dir, \%ext_map);    while (my $result = $finder->next) {        die $result->as_string if $result->is_fatal;        warn($result->as_string), next if $result->is_warning;        for my $pref (@{ $result->prefs }) {            if ($pref->matches(\%info)) {                return $pref;            }        }    }

# DESCRIPTION

This module encapsulates reading Distroprefs and matching them against CPAN distributions.

# INTERFACE

        my $finder = CPAN::Distroprefs->find($dir, \%ext_map);    while (my $result = $finder->next) { ... }

Build an iterator which finds distroprefs files in the given directory.

`%ext_map` is a hashref whose keys are file extensions and whose values are modules used to load matching files:

        {        'yml' => 'YAML::Syck',        'dd'  => 'Data::Dumper',        ...    }

Each time `$finder->next` is called, the iterator returns one of two possible values:

- a CPAN::Distroprefs::Result object
- `undef`, indicating that no prefs files remain to be found

# RESULTS

find() returns CPAN::Distroprefs::Result objects to indicate success or failure when reading a prefs file.

## Common

All results share some common attributes:

### type

`success` , `warning` , or `fatal`

### file

the file from which these prefs were read, or to which this error refers (relative filename)

### ext

the file's extension, which determines how to load it

### dir

the directory the file was read from

### abs

the absolute path to the file

## Errors

Error results (warning and fatal) contain:

### msg

the error message (usually either `$!` or a YAML error)

## Successes

Success results contain:

### prefs

an arrayref of CPAN::Distroprefs::Pref objects

# PREFS

CPAN::Distroprefs::Pref objects represent individual distroprefs documents. They are constructed automatically as part of `success` results from `find()` .

### data

the pref information as a hashref, suitable for e.g. passing to Kwalify

### match_attributes

returns a list of the valid match attributes (see the Distroprefs section in CPAN)

currently: `env perl perlconfig distribution module`

### has_any_match

true if this pref has a 'match' attribute at all

### has_valid_subkeys

true if this pref has a 'match' attribute and at least one valid match attribute

### matches

      if ($pref->matches(\%arg)) { ... }

true if this pref matches the passed-in hashref, which must have a value for each of the `match_attributes` (above)

# LICENSE

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

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- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- INTERFACE
- RESULTS
  - Common
  - Errors
  - Successes
- PREFS
- LICENSE