NAME
Test::DB
ABSTRACT
Temporary Databases for Testing
SYNOPSIS
package main;
use Test::DB;
my $tdb = Test::DB->new;
DESCRIPTION
This package provides a framework for setting up and tearing down temporary
databases for testing purposes. This framework requires a user (optionally with
password) which has the ability to create new databases and works by creating
test-specific databases owned by the user specified using the naming convention
of test_db_${time}_${proc}_{rand}.
LIBRARIES
This package uses type constraints from:
METHODS
This package implements the following methods:
create
create(Str :$database, Str %options) : Maybe[InstanceOf["Test::DB::Object"]]
The create method generates a database based on the type specified and returns
a Test::DB::Object with an active connection, dbh and dsn. If the
database specified doesn't have a corresponding database drive this method will
returned the undefined value. The type of database can be omitted if the
TESTDB_DATABASE environment variable is set, if not the type of database
must be either sqlite, mysql, or postgres.
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create example #1
# given: synopsis $tdb->create
AUTHOR
Al Newkirk, awncorp@cpan.org
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2011-2019, Al Newkirk, et al.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the The Apache License, Version 2.0, as elucidated in the "license file".