NAME¶

Test2::Tools::Grab - Temporarily intercept all events without adding a scope level.

DESCRIPTION¶

This package provides a function that returns an object that grabs all events. Once the object is destroyed events will once again be sent to the main hub.

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Test2::Tools::Grab;
    my $grab = grab();
    # Generate some events, they are intercepted.
    ok(1, "pass");
    ok(0, "fail");
    my $events_a = $grab->flush;
    # Generate some more events, they are intercepted.
    ok(1, "pass");
    ok(0, "fail");
    my $events_b = $grab->finish;

EXPORTS¶

$grab = grab()

This lets you intercept all events for a section of code without adding anything to your call stack. This is useful for things that are sensitive to changes in the stack depth.

    my $grab = grab();
        ok(1, 'foo');
        ok(0, 'bar');
    my $events = $grab->finish;
    is(@$events, 2, "grabbed 2 events.");
    

If the $grab object is destroyed without calling "finish()", it will automatically clean up after itself and restore the parent hub.

    {
        my $grab = grab();
        # Things are grabbed
    }
    # Things are back to normal
    

By default the hub used has "no_ending" set to true. This will prevent the hub from enforcing that you issued a plan and ran at least 1 test. You can turn enforcement back one like this:

    $grab->hub->set_no_ending(0);
    

With "no_ending" turned off, "finish" will run the post-test checks to enforce the plan and that tests were run. In many cases this will result in additional events in your events array.

SEE ALSO¶

Test2::Util::Grabber - The object constructed and returned by this tool.

SOURCE¶

The source code repository for Test2 can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

MAINTAINERS¶

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS¶

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright 2017 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

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

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/