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.IX Title "MetaCPAN::Client::Role::Entity 3pm"
.TH MetaCPAN::Client::Role::Entity 3pm "2018-05-17" "perl v5.26.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
MetaCPAN::Client::Role::Entity \- A role for MetaCPAN entities
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 2.025000
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This is a role to be consumed by all MetaCPAN::Client entities. It provides
common attributes and methods.
.SH "ATTRIBUTES"
.IX Header "ATTRIBUTES"
.SS "data"
.IX Subsection "data"
Hash reference containing all the entity data.
.PP
Entities are usually generated using \f(CW\*(C`new_from_request\*(C'\fR which sets the \f(CW\*(C`data\*(C'\fR
attribute appropriately by picking the relevant information.
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Required.
.SH "METHODS"
.IX Header "METHODS"
.SS "new_from_request"
.IX Subsection "new_from_request"
Create a new entity object using a request hash. The hash represents the
information returned from a MetaCPAN request. This also sets the data attribute.
.SS "\s-1BUILDARGS\s0"
.IX Subsection "BUILDARGS"
Perform type checks & conversion for the incoming data.
.SH "AUTHORS"
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
.IP "\(bu" 4
Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Mickey Nasriachi <mickey@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Sawyer X.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.