Release 0.03 implemented a new feature, supporting DanDomains authorization by IP, so it is not necessary to crawl the site and authenticate. So access directory to the source of exported data is possible with the correct configuration on the DanDomain side.

After new releases I always keep an keen eye on the test reports from CPAN testers and much to my surprise I got a failure report.

WWW-DanDomain-0.03:
- i386-freebsd / 5.10.1:
- FAIL http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6848267

It seemed as if the Makefile.PL was not parsed completely and only the first line in the requirements and configuration requirements sections where parsed.

The distribution is primarily based on Module::Build, so I overlooked this.

Using the CPAN-testers website I located the testers email address and mailed him. He was very responsive and he informed me that his smoke testing environment was configured to pick the Makefile.PL over Build.PL and my Makefile.PL only contained the two lines in the two sections I previously mentioned.

So I examined the culprit and he was right.

Confused over what the Makefile.PL I moved on the the Build.PL file, which I expected to generated the Makefile.PL and I could see that that particular feature was not configured.

So release 0.04 contains a fix to address this.

Thanks to CPAN Testers again, they help finding even the smallest of defects.

- EDBpriser
- Gate2Prices
- Tradedoubler
- Kelkoo
- Partner-ads.com
- Pricerunner
- Din Pris
- Forbrugerliv.dk
- Spar30.dk

The tool implemented in Perl takes the existing exports and does manipulation and filtering on them for finer control and application of certain business rules to improve and optimize the output.

The tools have grown over the years and in the spring of 2009 a lot of new feeds were added to the existing suite of tools. This indicated a long awaited refactoring of the code base, which had grown organically with the requirements from Itzy-Bitzy Communications and LOGU.

One of the things that came out of that refactoring was WWW::DanDomain a class based on Andy Lesters marvelous WWW::Mechanize a Perl module, assisting the developer in creating an HTTP client for accessing and retrieving data via HTTP.

WWW::DanDomain is for now pretty slim, but it is the core foundation in the tools created for accessing DanDomain web based administrative interface.

The idea behind the class, it to sub-class it and overwrite the processor method, which is the place to hook in, in order to get access to the product export data.

Currently we have implementations doing the following:

- Converting to XML from CSV
- Merging of data from two different exports
- Conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
- Complex business rules changed single fields in export
- Creation of exports for service providers not supported by DanDomain (see the list above)
- Cleaning of exported data

WWW::DanDomain is the first open source project from logicLAB, which is developed on our Atlassian Jira Studio solution, so things might change overtime as we get more into using Jira Studio for both closed and open source projects, for now the following resources are available from our WWW::DanDomain project web site (http://logicLAB.jira.com/browse/DAND):

- Wiki
- SCM, Subversion, readonly
- Bug/Issue tracking, requires account for now, but we are working on that

WWW::DanDomain is distributed under the Artistic License and can be downloaded from your local CPAN mirror or via: search.cpan.org.