NAME

CPANPLUS::Module::Author - CPAN author object for CPANPLUS

SYNOPSIS

my $author = CPANPLUS::Module::Author->new(
                author  => 'Jack Ashton',
                cpanid  => 'JACKASH',
                _id     => INTERNALS_OBJECT_ID,
            );
$author->cpanid;
$author->author;
$author->email;
@dists  = $author->distributions;
@mods   = $author->modules;
@accessors = CPANPLUS::Module::Author->accessors;

DESCRIPTION

"CPANPLUS::Module::Author" creates objects from the information in the source files. These can then be used to query on.

These objects should only be created internally. For "fake" objects, there's the "CPANPLUS::Module::Author::Fake" class.

ACCESSORS

An objects of this class has the following accessors:

author: Name of the author.
cpanid: The CPAN id of the author.
email: The email address of the author, which defaults to '' if not provided.
parent: The "CPANPLUS::Internals::Object" that spawned this module object.

METHODS

$auth = CPANPLUS::Module::Author->new( author => AUTHOR_NAME, cpanid => CPAN_ID, _id => INTERNALS_ID [, email => AUTHOR_EMAIL] )

This method returns a "CPANPLUS::Module::Author" object, based on the given parameters.

Returns false on failure.

@mod_objs = $auth->modules()

Return a list of module objects this author has released.

@dists = $auth->distributions()

Returns a list of module objects representing all the distributions this author has released.

CLASS METHODS

accessors ()

Returns a list of all accessor methods to the object

2023-07-25

perl v5.38.0