NAME
Test::API - Test a list of subroutines provided by a module
VERSION
version 0.010
SYNOPSIS
use Test::More tests => 3;
use Test::API;
require_ok( 'My::Package' );
public_ok ( 'My::Package', @names );
import_ok ( 'My::Package',
export => [ 'foo', 'bar' ],
export_ok => [ 'baz', 'bam' ],
);
class_api_ok( 'My::Class', @methods );
DESCRIPTION
This simple test module checks the subroutines provided by a module. This is useful for confirming a planned API in testing and ensuring that other functions aren't unintentionally included via import.
USAGE
Note: Subroutines starting with an underscore are ignored, as are a number of other methods not intended to be called directly by end-users.
import unimport bootstrap
AUTOLOAD BUILD BUILDARGS CLONE CLONE_SKIP DESTROY DEMOLISH
TIESCALAR TIEARRAY TIEHASH TIEHANDLE
FETCH STORE UNTIE FETCHSIZE STORESIZE POP PUSH SHIFT UNSHIFT SPLICE
DELETE EXISTS EXTEND CLEAR FIRSTKEY NEXTKEY PRINT PRINTF WRITE
READLINE GETC READ CLOSE BINMODE OPEN EOF FILENO SEEK TELL SCALAR
MODIFY_REF_ATTRIBUTES MODIFY_SCALAR_ATTRIBUTES MODIFY_ARRAY_ATTRIBUTES
MODIFY_HASH_ATTRIBUTES MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES MODIFY_GLOB_ATTRIBUTES
MODIFY_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES MODIFY_IO_ATTRIBUTES
FETCH_REF_ATTRIBUTES FETCH_SCALAR_ATTRIBUTES FETCH_ARRAY_ATTRIBUTES
FETCH_HASH_ATTRIBUTES FETCH_CODE_ATTRIBUTES FETCH_GLOB_ATTRIBUTES
FETCH_FORMAT_ATTRIBUTES FETCH_IO_ATTRIBUTES
Therefore, do not include any of these in a list of expected subroutines.
public_ok
public_ok( $package, @names );
This function checks that all of the @names
provided are available within the $package
namespace and that *only* these subroutines are available. This means that subroutines imported from other modules will cause this test to fail unless they are explicitly included in @names
.
class_api_ok
class_api_ok( $class, @names );
A variation of public_ok
for object-oriented modules. Allows superclasses to fill in "missing" subroutines, but "extra" methods provided by superclasses will not cause the test to fail.
import_ok
import_ok ( $package, %spec );
This function checks that $package
correctly exports an expected list of subroutines and *only* these subroutines. The %spec
generally follows the style used by [Exporter], but in lower case:
%spec = (
export => [ 'foo', 'bar' ], # exported automatically
export_ok => [ 'baz', 'bam' ], # optional exports
);
For export_ok
, the test will check for public functions not listed in export
or export_ok
that can be imported and will fail if any are found.
SEE ALSO
Test::ClassAPI -- more geared towards class trees with inheritance
SUPPORT
Bugs / Feature Requests
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at https://github.com/dagolden/Test-API/issues. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue.
Source Code
This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license.
https://github.com/dagolden/Test-API
git clone https://github.com/dagolden/Test-API.git
AUTHOR
David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
CONTRIBUTORS
cpansprout <cpansprout@gmail.com>
Toby Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2018 by David Golden.
This is free software, licensed under:
The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004