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/ Test::Fatal::matchfor

NAME

Test::Fatal::matchfor - match exceptions by class name or regexp

SYNOPSIS

Let's say you're testing the following Moose class...

package Goose {
   use Moose;
   has feather_count => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Int');
}

In Moose 2.1102 and above, exception objects are thrown, but in earlier versions of Moose, only string errors are given.

So we might want to test it something like this:

use Test::More;
use Test::Fatal;

use Goose;

my $e = exception {
   Goose->new(feather_count => 3.1)
};

ref($e)
   ? isa_ok($e, 'Moose::Exception::ValidationFailedForTypeConstraint')
   : like($e, qr{does not pass the type constraint})

This module provides a small shortcut for that pattern:

use Test::More;
use Test::Fatal;
use Test::Fatal::matchfor;

use Goose;

my $e = exception {
   Goose->new(feather_count => 3.1)
};

is(
   $e,
   matchfor(
      'Moose::Exception::ValidationFailedForTypeConstraint',
      qr{does not pass the type constraint},
   ),
);

DESCRIPTION

Test::Fatal::matchfor exports the matchfor function which accepts a list of class/role names and regular expressions, and constructs an object overloading == and eq to return true if compared for equality against a string that matches one of those regular expressions, or an object that isa/does one of those class/role names.

So for example, to check a type constraint error in Moose, you might use:

my $tc_err = matchfor(
   'Moose::Exception::ValidationFailedForTypeConstraint',
   'Moose::Exception::ValidationFailedForInlinedTypeConstraint',
   qr{does not pass the type constraint},
),

is($exception, $tc_err, "encountered error as expected");

BUGS

Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Test-Fatal-matchfor.

SEE ALSO

Test::Fatal, Moose::Exception.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.