DESCRIPTION

Methods used to provide some feedback from Devel::CoverReport::* modules.

WARNING

Consider this module to be an early ALPHA. It does the job for me, so it's here.

This is my first CPAN module, so I expect that some things may be a bit rough around edges.

The plan is, to fix both those issues, and remove this warning in next immediate release.

API

new

Constructor for Devel::CoverReport::Feedback.

Note: setting quiet AND verbose does not have much sense... but - surprize! - will work :) In such configuration, all usual things that are printed will NOT be printed, and those that ususally are not printed - WILL.

note

Print a note, unless running in 'quiet' mode.

info

Print informative text, when in 'verbose' mode.

at_file

Print indication, that specific file is being processed.

file_off

Indicate, that file processing has finished. This means, that either this was the last file, or we are about to go to the next one.

error_at_file

Report any errors, that are related to file being currently processed. Always printed.

If file path was not printed, it will be, just before the error.

warning_at_file

Report any warnings, that are related to file being currently processed. Always printed.

If file path was not printed, it will be, just before the warning.

progress_open

Open progress indicator.

progress_tick

Indicate, that a step in the process has been made.

progress_close

Close (end) progress indicator.

enable_buffer

Turn ON built-in output buffering. Since this function is used, any feedback will be stored in memory. To get that feedback out, You should use dump_buffer.

Primary use of the buffer is to hold child's output, and pass it to parent, which prints it. This way output of one child is not interrupted by other child.

There is no disable_buffer, since it was needed. I will add it, once there will be a need for it (see? I'm not THAT lazy ;).

dump_buffer

Dump serialized contents of the output buffer.

To print this data, use pass_buffer.

After contents of the buffer are returned, the buffer itself is cleared.

Impotant: make sure, You do not pass it using a Feedback object that has buffering enabled! That would not make much sense.

pass_buffer

Print serialized output buffer contents.

See notes in dump_buffer too.

_print

This is the thing, that actually prints stuff out, so It's easy to silence/inspect the feedback in tests.

It can be overwritten in child classes, so they can log to file, or what ever You would need/like.

Private. Do not use from outside of the module!

LICENCE

Copyright 2009-2011, Bartłomiej Syguła (perl@bs502.pl)

This is free software. It is licensed, and can be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

For more, see my website: http://bs502.pl/