Randy J. Ray wrote: > Seeing as one of the > CPANTS metrics gauges whether a distro's META.yml conforms to the > most-recent spec, I was wondering if there is an existing approach to > comparing a YAML doc to a given "spec". Or what constitutes a YAML spec, for > that matter.
The YAML specifications can be found here: http://yaml.org/ Or do you mean a YAML data validation schema? For that you can use Rx. http://rjbs.manxome.org/rx/ It might be interesting to write up the META.yml spec as an Rx schema. > I've seen the spec for META.yml, which is itself a YAML doc. I > wondered what the CPANTS framework does, in terms of validating? Is is > something generic that I could adapt? Or is it a one-off that has to be > adjusted each time changes are made to the spec itself? There's Test::CPAN::Meta and Test::YAML::Meta... they look like the same thing and its not clear why there's two parallel distributions. Anyhow, it just has a big data structure of what keys are allowed, what's mandatory, what's optional and what the values can be. -- 170. Not allowed to "defect" to OPFOR during training missions. -- The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army http://skippyslist.com/list/
