The document describes a project to build a website called PerkyProfiler that retrieves user profile information from different services like GitHub, Flickr, and Twitter by taking URLs as input. It will use Perl and several Perl modules. The project will be built using the Catalyst web framework and Moose/MooseX for object-oriented programming. It describes using Moose roles, custom types, declarative class definitions, and functional programming techniques in Perl. The goal is to generate a unified user profile by combining data from different services for a given URL.

1. Perl

2. Perl
Hate it for the right reasons

3. “Perl is an abomination.”

4. “Perl is an abomination.”
Matt Follett, circa 2006

5. “Perl is an abomination.”
Matt Follett, circa 2006
while talking to president of the Perl Foundation

6. Old Views of Perl
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if($j){{$^W=$|;*_=sub{$=+s=#([A-z])(.*)#=#$+$1#=g}} #_The_Perl_Journal_#
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>
SelfGOL - obfuscated Perl contest entry by Damien Conway

7. Slightly More Modern Perl
package PerkyProfiler::Service::Role::OwnsUri;
use Moose::Role;
requires 'source';
use URI;
sub owns_uri {
my ($self, $uri) = @_;
$uri = URI->new($uri) if not UNIVERSAL::isa( $uri, 'URI' );
my $source = $self->source;
return ( $uri->host() =~ /.$source./i )
}
1;

8. Modern Perl
use MooseX::Declare; use MooseX::MultiMethod;
use Moose::Role;
use URI;
role PerkyProfiler::Service::Role::OwnsUri requires 'source'
{
multi method owns_uri( URI $uri) {
my $source = $self->source;
return ( $uri->host() =~ /.$source./i )
}
}
1;

9. Hate it because it does a lot
Meta Object Protocol
new object system on top of MOP
Several nice web frameworks
functional programming

10. Hate it because it’s
hard to give a talk on

11. Project
Vending machine

12. Project
Vending machine
except, instead of vending items it vends ‘identities’

13. Project
Vending machine
except, instead of vending items it vends ‘identities’
and instead of taking ‘coins’ it takes ‘URL’s

14. Project
Vending machine
except, instead of vending items it vends ‘identities’
and instead of taking ‘coins’ it takes ‘URL’s
and instead of being a ‘machine’ it is a ‘website’

15. Project
Vending machine
except, instead of vending items it vends ‘identities’
and instead of taking ‘coins’ it takes ‘URL’s
and instead of being a ‘machine’ it is a ‘website’
and instead of having states it is ‘stateless’

16. Project
Vending machine
except, instead of vending items it vends ‘identities’
and instead of taking ‘coins’ it takes ‘URL’s
and instead of being a ‘machine’ it is a ‘website’
and instead of having states it is ‘stateless’
...

17. PerkyProfiler
The post modern multi service
profiling application all the kids
are talking about these days.

18. Goals of project
Given a URL
get info about the contributor on that service
comb other services for information on that user
Services chosen
GitHub
Flickr
Twitter
Use CPAN when possible

19. Web Frameworks
Catalyst
Gantry
Jifty
CGI::App

20. Catalyst
Simple
MVC Framework
Has many Models and Views to choose from
Easy to write new ones
Easy to plug other things in
Lots of helper scripts

21. Helpers
Start an app:
catalyst.pl PerkyProfiler
Add a model:
./script/perkyprofiler_create.pl model Profiler
Add a view:
./script/perkyprofiler_create.pl view Main TTSite

22. Incorporating a new Model
package PerkyProfiler::Model::Profiler;
use strict;
use warnings;
use parent 'Catalyst::Model::Adaptor';
__PACKAGE__->config( class => 'PerkyProfiler::Profiler');

23. Use new model
sub index :Path :Args(0) {
my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
...
my $profiler = $c->model('Profiler');
my $entity;
eval {
$entity = $profiler->generate_entity_from_uri($c->req->param('url'));
$profiler->loop_update_entity($entity);
$c->stash->{'entity'} = $entity;
};
if( my $err = $@) {
$c->stash->{'message'} = "Sorry, but an error occured:" . $err->message(); }}

24. Profiler
loop_update_entity
given an entity loops through and updates it
generate_entity_from_uri
Generates a new entity object from a given URI

25. Example Service: Flickr
package PerkyProfiler::Service::Flickr;
use Flickr::Simple2;
use PerkyProfiler::Entity;
use PerkyProfiler::Entity::Attribute;
use Moose;
with 'PerkyProfiler::Service::Role';
has _core => ( isa => 'Flickr::Simple2', is => 'rw');
has key => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro' );
has secret => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro' );
has _contributed => ( isa => 'Bool', is => 'rw', default => 0 );

26. Moose
“Post Modern” Object System that provides:
roles
declarative definitions
delegation
typing
method modifiers
…and more!

27. Declarative Style Classes Ex
has _core => (
isa => ‘Flickr::Simple2’,
is => ‘rw’,
handles =>
{ entity_from_username => 'get_user_byUsername'
entity_from_url => 'get_user_byUrl ' }
);

28. Declarative Style Class Defs
Simply say what it has, eg, “has key => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro' )”
Declare different things:
is - read/write permissions
default - default value, or sub that generates the value
lazy - lazy generation
required
delegated tasks
isa - type

29. Types?
Yes, perl is loosely typed, but Moose checks for you.
It can do:
predefined types like strings, integers, numbers
ref too, eg, ArrayRef[CodeRef] is an array of subs
classes
custom types

30. Custom Types
New types
type ‘two_chars’ => where { defined $_ && length
$_ == 2};
Subtypes
subtype ‘EvenInt’ => as ‘Int’ => where { $_ % 2 + 1}
=> message {“Please provide an even number”}

31. Back to the example
package PerkyProfiler::Service::Flickr;
use Flickr::Simple2;
use PerkyProfiler::Entity;
use PerkyProfiler::Entity::Attribute;
use Moose;
with 'PerkyProfiler::Service::Role';
has _core => ( isa => 'Flickr::Simple2', is => 'rw');
has key => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro' );
has secret => ( isa => 'Str', is => 'ro' );
has _contributed => ( isa => 'Bool', is => 'rw', default => 0 );

32. Moose Roles
Roles can be used simply by saying: “with
'PerkyProfiler::Service::Role';”
Roles allow you to define a list of methods that must exist
(an interface)
Roles also allow you to define a list of methods that
cannot exist
Finally roles can provide you with additional functionality
(mixin)

33. New Example: Service::Role
package PerkyProfiler::Service::Role;
use Moose::Role;
with 'PerkyProfiler::Service::Role::UsernameGenerator';
with 'PerkyProfiler::Service::Role::OwnsUri';
requires '_get_user_from_uri';
requires '_get_user_info';
requires 'map_to_entity';
requires 'contributor';

34. Providing a Role
Just `use Moose::Role;`
Roles can consume other Roles
Roles can require subs via requires, eg, requires
‘map_to_entity’
Roles can exclude other roles via excludes, eg, exclude
‘ConflictingRole’

35. Example: Working with Roles
Objects can be introspected for roles
foreach my $service ( $self->_services->gen_iterator->() )
{
if($service->meta->does_role($owns_uri_role))
{
if($service->owns_uri($uri))
{
return $service->entity_from_uri($uri);
}}}

36. What else can Moose do?
Meta everything (Meta attributes, classes, roles)
Anonymous classes
autoboxing with MooseX::Autobox
multimethod dispatching with MooseX::MultiMethod

37. What else does Perl have?
DBIx::Class
Object Relational Mapper
classes are based off tables, but can be reassigned
columns can be custom inflated

38. What we missed

39. Perl’s Functional
Programming Techniques

40. St. Louis Perl Monger’s proudly present:
August 17th, 6:30 PM
4444 Forest Park Pkwy
Intro to Functional
Programming in Perl
with Bill Odom