NAME

Test::Deep::Type - A Test::Deep plugin for validating type constraints

VERSION

version 0.008

SYNOPSIS

use Test::More;
use Test::Deep;
use Test::Deep::Type;
use MooseX::Types::Moose 'Str';

cmp_deeply(
    {
        message => 'ack I am slain',
        counter => 123,
    },
    {
        message => is_type(Str),
        counter => is_type(sub { die "not an integer" unless int($_[0]) eq $_[0] }),
    },
    'message is a plain string, counter is a number',
);

DESCRIPTION

This is a Test::Deep plugin that provides the sub is_type to indicate that the data being tested must validate against the passed type. This is an actual type object, not a string name -- for example something provided via MooseX::Types, or a plain old coderef that returns a bool (such as what might be used in a Moo type constraint).

FUNCTIONS

is_type

Exported by default; to be used within a Test::Deep comparison function such as cmp_deeply. As this module aims to be a solution for many popular type systems, we attempt to use the type in multiple ways:

MooseX::Types/Moose::Meta::TypeConstraint-style types:

If the validate method exists, it is invoked on the type object with the data as its parameter (which should return undef on success, and the error message on failure).

coderef/Moo-style types:

If the type appears to be or act like a coderef (either a coderef, blessed or unblessed, or possesses a coderef overload) the type is invoked as a sub, with the data as its parameter. Its return value is treated as a boolean; if it also dies with a message describing the failure, this message is used in the failure diagnostics.

Type::Tiny types fall into this category, and are fully supported.

CAVEATS

Regular strings describing a type under a particular system (e.g. Moose, Params::Validate) are not currently supported.

SEE ALSO

SUPPORT

Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker (or bug-Test-Deep-Type@rt.cpan.org).

There is also a mailing list available for users of this distribution, at http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-qa.html.

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at #perl on irc.perl.org.

I am also usually active on irc, as 'ether' at irc.perl.org.

AUTHOR

Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTOR

Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Karen Etheridge.

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