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-title: "Perl SDK"
-
+title: "Installation"
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+{% comment %}
+Copyright (C) The Arvados Authors. All rights reserved.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-3.0
+{% endcomment %}
The Perl SDK provides a generic set of wrappers so you can make API calls easily.
On Red Hat-based systems:
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-<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo yum install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-JSON perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-WWW-Curl libarvados-perl</code>
+<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo yum install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-JSON perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-WWW-Curl libarvados-perl</code>
</code></pre>
</notextile>
Then run the following:
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-<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git</span>
+<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">git clone https://github.com/arvados/arvados.git</span>
~$ <span class="userinput">cd arvados/sdk/perl</span>
~$ <span class="userinput">perl Makefile.PL</span>
~$ <span class="userinput">sudo make install</span>
arvados.v1.users.current.full_name = 'Your Name'
</pre>
</notextile>
-
-h3. Examples
-
-Set up an API client user agent:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my $arv = Arvados->new('apiVersion' => 'v1');
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-Get the User object for the current user:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my $current_user = $arv->{'users'}->{'current'}->execute;
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-Get the UUID of an object that was retrieved using the SDK:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my $current_user_uuid = $current_user->{'uuid'}
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-Retrieve an object by ID:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my $some_user = $arv->{'users'}->{'get'}->execute('uuid' => $current_user_uuid);
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-Create an object:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my $test_link = $arv->{'links'}->{'create'}->execute('link' => { 'link_class' => 'test', 'name' => 'test' });
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-Update an object:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my $test_link = $arv->{'links'}->{'update'}->execute(
- 'uuid' => $test_link->{'uuid'},
- 'link' => { 'properties' => { 'foo' => 'bar' } });
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-Get a list of objects:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code class="userinput">my $repos = $arv->{'repositories'}->{'list'}->execute;
-print ("UUID of first repo returned is ", $repos->{'items'}->[0], "\n");
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-The SDK retrieves the list of API methods from the server at run time. Therefore, the set of available methods is determined by the server version rather than the SDK version.