NAME Jar::Manifest - Read and Write Java Jar Manifests SYNOPSIS use Jar::Manifest qw(Dump Load); # Read a Manifest my $manifest_str = <<"MANIFEST"; Manifest-Version: 1.0 Created-By: 1.5.0_11-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.) Built-By: JAPH Name: org/myapp/foo/ Implementation-Title: Test Java JAR Implementation-Version: 1.9 Implementation-Vendor: JAPH MANIFEST my $manifest = Load($manifest_str); printf( "Jar built by -> %s\n", $manifest->{main}->{'Built-By'} ); printf( "Name: %s\nVersion: %s\n", $_->{Name}, $_->{'Implementation-Version'} ) for @{ $manifest->{entries} }; # Write a manifest my $manifest = { # Main attributes main => { 'Manifest-Version' => '1.0', 'Created-By' => '1.5.0_11-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)', 'Built-By' => 'JAPH', }, # Entries entries => [ { 'Name' => 'org/myapp/foo/', 'Implementation-Title' => 'Test Java JAR', 'Implementation-Version' => '1.9', 'Implementation-Vendor' => 'JAPH', } ], }; my $manifest_string = Dump($manifest); DESCRIPTION Jar::Manifest provides a perl interface to read and write Manifest files found within Java archives - typically META-INF/MANIFEST.MF within a .jar file. The Jar Manifest specification can be found here http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jar/jar.html#JAR_Manifest METHODS - Load($string) use Jar::Manifest qw(Load); use Data::Dumper; my $manifest = Load($string); print Dumper $manifest; Read the manifest contents in $string. Returns a _hash-reference_ containing two keys. The _main_ key is another hash-reference to the main attributes and corresponding values. The _entries_ key is an array-ref of hashes containing per-entry attributes and the corresponding values - Dump($manifest) print Dump($manifest); Turns the $manifest data structure into a string that can be printed to a MANIFEST.MF file. The $manifest structure is expected to be in the same format as the Load() output. DEPENDENCIES Encode Text::Wrap BUGS AND LIMITATIONS Please report any bugs or feature requests at https://github.com/mithun/perl-jar-manifest/issues AUTHOR Mithun Ayachit mithun@cpan.org LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2014, Mithun Ayachit. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.