CPAN::Meta::Feature - an optional feature provided by a CPAN distribution

Authors

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

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.

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. perl v5.40.1 2025-07-03 CPAN::Meta::Feature(3perl)

Description

A CPAN::Meta::Feature object describes an optional feature offered by a CPAN distribution and specified in the distribution's META.json (or META.yml) file. For the most part, this class will only be used when operating on the result of the "feature" or "features" methods on a CPAN::Meta object.

Methods

new my $feature = CPAN::Meta::Feature->new( $identifier => \%spec ); This returns a new Feature object. The %spec argument to the constructor should be the same as the value of the "optional_feature" entry in the distmeta. It must contain entries for "description" and "prereqs". identifier This method returns the feature's identifier. description This method returns the feature's long description. prereqs This method returns the feature's prerequisites as a CPAN::Meta::Prereqs object.