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More questions about testing
by Steve Dondley 29 Dec '17

29 Dec '17

I'm trying to get up to speed on integrating tests into a simple plugin I wrote. I wrote a couple of tests that ensure my module injects the expected code into a template. I believe this would be considered to be an "author's test" and wouldn't need to run upon installation. Does that mean I should create an "xt/" directory with my plugin distribution and put my tests in there? Regarding tests for installation, which I believe should go in the "t/" directory, which tests should I write for that?

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Testing documentation is lacking for newbs
by Steve Dondley 29 Dec '17

29 Dec '17

So I'm trying to figure out how to do testing Dancer 2 apps. For someone like me, relatively new to testing, it's unclear just where these tests should do and how to execute them. I read the docs but they didn't address my questions. With the default skeleton, I see there are two tests in t/ folder. They aren't executable nor do they have the shebang line. So I'm left scratching my head as to what to do with these tests and what they are used for and whether I should bother to modify them and add more tests to them. I tried making t/001_base.t executable and I just get an error that it couldn't load my module.

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Any way to import plugins into extension apps?
by Steve Dondley 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

Here's the few lines from a hypothetical MainApp in /lib: # File 1 package MainApp; use ExtendingApp; use HTML::Element; And here is a perl module that extends this app. # File 2 package ExtendingApp; use Dancer2 appname => MainApp; get '/' => sub { my $element = HTML::Element->new('h1'); }; ### END ### This works. I get no errors because the HTML::Element module can be seen inside routes. However, unless I'm missing something, this doesn't work. # File 1 package MainApp; use ExtendingApp; use Dancer2::Plugin::Database; # File 2 package ExtendingApp; use Dancer2 appname => MainApp; get '/' => sub { my @data = database->quick_select('test_table', {}); }; ### END ### The above results in an error: Can't locate object method "quick_select" via package "database" (perhaps you forgot to load "database"?) I'm forced to add "use Dancer2::Plugin::Database" to File 2. I'm curious to know if there's some way to import commonly used plugins into extension apps. Thanks!

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