Test/Warn version 0.04 ====================== INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Test::Builder Test::Exception Array::Compare Sub::Uplevel List::Util Switch SYNOPSIS use Test::Warn; warning_is {foo(-dri => "/")} "Unknown Parameter 'dri'", "dri != dir gives warning"; warnings_are {bar(1,1)} ["Width very small", "Height very small"]; warning_is {add(2,2)} undef, "No warning to calc 2+2"; # or warnings_are {add(2,2)} [], "No warning to calc 2+2"; # what reads better :-) warning_like {foo(-dri => "/"} qr/unknown param/i, "an unknown parameter test"; warnings_like {bar(1,1)} [qr/width.*small/i, qr/height.*small/i]; warning_is {foo()} {carped => 'didn't found the right parameters'}; warnings_like {foo()} [qr/undefined/,qr/undefined/,{carped => qr/no result/i}]; [NOT IMPLEMENTED YET] warning_like {foo(undef)} 'uninitialized'; warning_like {bar(file => '/etc/passwd'} 'io'; DESCRIPTION This module provides a few convenience methods for testing warning based code. If you are not already familiar with the Test::More manpage now would be the time to go take a look. FUNCTIONS warning_is BLOCK STRING, TEST_NAME Tests that BLOCK gives exactly the one specificated warning. The test fails if the BLOCK warns more then one times or doesn't warn. If the string is undef, then the tests succeeds iff the BLOCK doesn't give any warning. Another way to say that there aren't ary warnings in the block, is "warnings_are {foo()} [], "no warnings in"". If you want to test for a warning given by carp, You have to write something like: "warning_is {carp "msg"} {carped =" 'msg'}, "Test for a carped warning">. The test will fail, if a "normal" warning is found instead of a "carped" one. Note: "warn "foo"" would print something like "foo at -e line 1". This method ignores everything after the at. That means, to match this warning you would have to call "warning_is {warn "foo"} "foo", "Foo succeeded"". If you need to test for a warning at an exactly line, try better something like "warning_like {warn "foo"} qr/at XYZ.dat line 5/". warning_is and warning_are are only aliases to the same method. So you also could write "warning_is {foo()} [], "no warning"" or something similar. I decided me to give two methods to have some better readable method names. A true value is returned if the test succeeds, false otherwise. The test name is optional, but recommended. warnings_are BLOCK ARRAYREF, TEST_NAME Tests to see that BLOCK gives exactly the specificated warnings. The test fails if the BLOCK warns a different number than the size of the ARRAYREf would have expected. If the ARRAYREF is equal to [], then the test succeeds iff the BLOCK doesn't give any warning. Please read also the notes to warning_is as these methods are only aliases. If you want more than one tests for carped warnings look that way: "warnings_are {carp "c1"; carp "c2"} {carped =" ['c1','c2'];> or "warnings_are {foo()} ["Warning 1", {carped =" ["Carp 1", "Carp 2"]}, "Warning 2"]>. Note that "{carped =" ...}> has always to be a hash ref. warning_like BLOCK REGEXP, TEST_NAME Tests that BLOCK gives exactly one warning and it can be matched to the given regexp. If the string is undef, then the tests succeeds iff the BLOCK doesn't give any warning. The REGEXP is matched after the whole warn line, which consists in general of "WARNING at __FILE__ line __LINE__". So you can check for a warning in at File Foo.pm line 5 with "warning_like {bar()} qr/at Foo.pm line 5/, "Testname"". I don't know whether it's sensful to do such a test :-( However, you should be prepared as a matching with 'at', 'file', '\d' or similar will always pass. Think to the qr/^foo/ if you want to test for warning "foo something" in file foo.pl. You can also write the regexp in a string as "/.../" instead of using the qr/.../ syntax. Note that the slashes are important in the string, as strings without slashes are reserved for future versions (to match warning categories as can be seen in the perllexwarn man page). Similar to "warning_is", you can test for warnings via "carp" with: "warning_like {bar()} {carped =" qr/bar called too early/i};> Similar to "warning_is"/"warnings_are", "warning_like" and "warnings_like" are only aliases to the same methods. A true value is returned if the test succeeds, false otherwise. The test name is optional, but recommended. warnings_like BLOCK ARRAYREF, TEST_NAME Tests to see that BLOCK gives exactly the number of the specificated warnings and all the warnings have to match in the defined order to the passed regexes. Please read also the notes to warning_like as these methods are only aliases. Similar to "warnings_are", you can test for multiple warnings via "carp" with: "warnings_like {foo()} [qr/undefined/,qr/undefined/,{carped =" qr/no result/i}];> EXPORT "warning_is", "warnings_are", "warning_like", "warnings_like" by default. SEE ALSO Have a look to the similar Test::Exception module. THANKS Many thanks to Adrian Howard, Chromatic and Michael G. Schwern, who has given me a lot of ideas. AUTHOR Janek Schleicher, COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2002 by Janek Schleicher This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.