Source: libdata-javascript-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ansgar Burchardt Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: libmodern-perl-perl , libreadonly-perl , libtest2-suite-perl , perl Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdata-javascript-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdata-javascript-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Data-JavaScript Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libdata-javascript-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libmodern-perl-perl, libreadonly-perl Description: module to dump perl data structures into JavaScript code Data::JavaScript is mainly intended for CGI programming, when a perl script generates a page with client side JavaScript code that needs access to structures created on the server. . It works by creating one line of JavaScript code per datum. Therefore, structures cannot be created anonymously and need to be assigned to variables. However, this format enables dumping large structures.