NAME

Meta::Development::Assert - object to inherit verbose objects from.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Assert.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.00

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Development::Assert qw();
Meta::Development::Assert::assert_meq(3+4,7);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a set of functions to ease making assertions in the code and handling the result of a failed assertion in a centralized manner. The modules default behaviour is to throw an Error::Simple exception whenever an assertion fails.

FUNCTIONS

assert_true($$)
assert_false($$)
assert_eq($$$)
assert_ne($$$)
assert_ge($$$)
assert_gt($$$)
assert_le($$$)
assert_lt($$$)
assert_seq($$$)
assert_sne($$$)
assert_isa($$$)
is_number($)
TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

assert_true($$)

Assert that the value passed is indeed true.

assert_false($$)

Assert that the value passed is indeed false.

assert_eq($$$)

Assert that two numerical values are equal.

assert_ne($$$)

Assert that two numerical values are different.

assert_ge($$$)

Assert that one numeric value is greater or equal to the other.

assert_gt($$$)

Assert that one numeric value is greater than the other.

assert_le($$$)

Assert that one numeric value is less or equal to the other.

assert_lt($$$)

Assert that one numeric value is less than the other.

assert_seq($$$)

Assert that two values are the same string.

assert_sne($$$)

Assert that two values are not the same string.

assert_isa($$$)

Assert that an object is of a certain type.

is_number($)

Assert that the string given is a number.

TEST($)

This is a testing suite for the Meta::Development::Assert module. This test is should be run by a higher level management system at integration or release time or just as a regular routine to check that all is well.

Currently this test suite just makes a simple assertion.

SUPER CLASSES

None.

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), strict(3)

TODO

Nothing.