Graham Barr wrote:
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:43 AM, David Golden wrote:
05. Schema
Proposal:
The META spec should come along with a formal schema definition.
(SlavenRezic)
I am not so much concerned about a formal schema. But an official module
to validate, or purge bad data, would be great. otherwise users end up
having to write very defensive code (ie making sure hash/array
references are
as expected). being able to validate first will simplify code for many
people
I think this is a very important point considering that it would
probably make sense to have this validation supported in the perl core
so CPAN(PLUS) can use it. Including a framework such as Rx in core for
this seems unlikely. Including a special purpose module (or extending
one like Parse::CPAN::Meta) is likely possible and no big deal.
Cheers,
Steffen
