[Chicago-talk] Help with Net::Amazon::MechanicalTurk

[Kent Cowgill]

I found this at least:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110222145817/http://www.vinertech.com/patches/net-amazon-mechanicalturk.patch

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Alan Mead <amead2 at alanmead.org> wrote:
> 
> I need to install Net::Amazon::MechanicalTurk on my CentOS 6 server, but
> it's failing. If you're interested, the results are here:
> http://gooseburger.homeunix.org/alan/files/net-amazon-mturk.buildfails.text
> 
> Looking at the open bugs on CPAN, this code looks unmaintained. But I
> did find this: 
> http://daveviner.blogspot.com/2009/12/amazon-mechanical-turk-perl-library.html
> 
> But the patch seems to be gone away and brian d foy's unofficial version
> seems to have gone away:
> http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Net-Amazon-MechanicalTurk-1.01_01/
> 
> But I did find a suggestion to delete the function 'defined' on line 35
> of ModuleUtil. The only comment in that routine was "Symbol table black
> magic" and I have no idea what it's doing. I've reproduced the relevant
> routine ("packageExists") with the change, although I think I'd need
> more context (like a call) to understand what it's doing... Can anyone
> explain this change?
> 
> sub packageExists {
>    my ($class, $package) = @_;
>    # Symbol table black magic
>    no strict 'refs';
>    return %{*{"${package}::"}};          # <-- here's the change
>    #return defined %{*{"${package}::"}}; # <-- here's the old line
>    # based on Pavel Karoukin's suggestion
>    #
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/701093/how-can-i-fix-netamazonmechanicalturks-failing-tests
> }
> 
> When I run the accountbalance sample script, it returns "MechanicalTurk
> account balance: 10000.000" while the website says I have about
> $102.00.  So, I'm assuming the code is not working...
> 
> A number of the package's tests were deferred until I configured the
> package with AWS credentials,  and one test failed when I re-ran them:
> 
> t/93-RetrieveResults.t .................... 1/4
> #   Failed test 'Actual reviewable hits'
> #   at t/93-RetrieveResults.t line 15.
> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 4.
> t/93-RetrieveResults.t .................... Dubious, test returned 1
> (wstat 256, 0x100)
> Failed 1/4 subtests
> t/boilerplate.t ........................... ok
> t/pod-coverage.t .......................... skipped: Test::Pod::Coverage
> 1.04 required for testing POD coverage
> t/pod.t ................................... ok
> 
> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> t/93-RetrieveResults.t                  (Wstat: 256 Tests: 4 Failed: 1)
>  Failed test:  3
>  Non-zero exit status: 1
> Files=33, Tests=112, 28 wallclock secs ( 0.09 usr  0.05 sys +  3.01
> cusr  0.42 csys =  3.57 CPU)
> Result: FAIL
> Failed 1/33 test programs. 1/112 subtests failed.
> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
> 
> Any suggestions about how I go about investigating this?
> 
> Finally, I also found this: 
> https://aws.amazon.com/items/443?externalID=443&categoryID=24
> 
> Which also doesn't work (no output) but I feel like I can probably debug
> that script myself.
> 
> Any thoughts, suggestions, or experiences with this would be much
> appreciated.  I'd really like to do this using Perl, if I can.
> 
> -Alan
> 
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