CPAN::Meta::Validator - validate CPAN distribution metadata structures

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

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.

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::Validator(3perl)

This module validates a CPAN Meta structure against the version of the the specification claimed in the "meta-spec" field of the structure.

new my $cmv = CPAN::Meta::Validator->new( $struct ) The constructor must be passed a metadata structure. is_valid if ( $cmv->is_valid ) { ... } Returns a boolean value indicating whether the metadata provided is valid. errors warn( join "\n", $cmv->errors ); Returns a list of errors seen during validation.

CPAN::Meta::Validator - validate CPAN distribution metadata structures

my $struct = decode_json_file('META.json'); my $cmv = CPAN::Meta::Validator->new( $struct ); unless ( $cmv->is_valid ) { my $msg = "Invalid META structure. Errors found:\n"; $msg .= join( "\n", $cmv->errors ); die $msg; }

version 2.150010