NAME

Test::Stream::Compare::Custom - Custom field check for comparisons.

EXPERIMENTAL CODE WARNING

This is an experimental release! Test-Stream, and all its components are still in an experimental phase. This dist has been released to cpan in order to allow testers and early adopters the chance to write experimental new tools with it, or to add experimental support for it into old tools.

PLEASE DO NOT COMPLETELY CONVERT OLD TOOLS YET. This experimental release is very likely to see a lot of code churn. API's may break at any time. Test-Stream should NOT be depended on by any toolchain level tools until the experimental phase is over.

DESCRIPTION

Sometimes you want to do something complicated or unusual when validating a field nested inside a deep data structure. You could pull it out of the structure and test it seperately, or you can use this to embed the check. This provides a way for you to write custom checks for fields in deep comparisons.

SYNOPSIS

my $cus = Test::Stream::Compare::Custom->new(
    name => 'IsRef',
    operator => 'ref(...)',
    code => sub {
        my ($got, $exists, $operator, $name) = @_;
        return ref($got) ? 1 : 0;
    },
);

# Pass
is(
    { a => 1, ref => {},   b => 2 },
    { a => 1, ref => $cus, b => 2 },
    "This will pass"
);

# Fail
is(
    {a => 1, ref => 'notref', b => 2},
    {a => 1, ref => $cus,     b => 2},
    "This will fail"
);

ARGUMENTS

Your custom sub will get 4 arguments:

code => sub {
    my ($got, $exists, $operator, $name) = @_;
    return ref($got) ? 1 : 0;
},

$_ is also localized to $got to make it easier for those who need to use regexes.

$got

$_

This is the value to be checked.

$exists

This will be a boolean. This will be true if $got exists at all. If $exists is false then it means $got is not simply undef, but doesn't exist at all (think checking the value of a hash key that does not exist).

$operator

This is the operator specified at construction.

$name

This is the name provided at construction.

METHODS

$code = $cus->code

Get the coderef provided at construction.

$name = $cus->name

Get the name provided at construction.

$op = $cus->operator

Get the operator provided at construction

$bool = $cus->verify(got => $got, exists => $bool)

SOURCE

The source code repository for Test::Stream can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test-Stream/.

MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015 Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.

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

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