NAME

Test::Pod::No404s - Checks POD for http 404 links

SYNOPSIS

        #!/usr/bin/perl
        use strict; use warnings;

        use Test::More;

        eval "use Test::Pod::No404s";
        if ( $@ ) {
                plan skip_all => 'Test::Pod::No404s required for testing POD';
        } else {
                all_pod_files_ok();
        }

ABSTRACT

Using this test module will check your POD for any http 404 links.

DESCRIPTION

This module looks for any http(s) links in your POD and verifies that they will not return a 404. It uses LWP::UserAgent for the heavy lifting, and simply lets you know if it failed to retrieve the document. More specifically, it uses $response->is_error as the "test."

Normally, you wouldn't want this test to be run during end-user installation because they might have no internet! It is HIGHLY recommended that this be used only for module authors' RELEASE_TESTING phase. To do that, just modify the synopsis to add an env check :)

Methods

all_pod_files_ok( [ @files ] )

This function is what you will usually run. It automatically finds any POD in your distribution and runs checks on them.

Accepts an optional argument: an array of files to check. By default it checks all POD files it can find in the distribution. Every file it finds is passed to the pod_file_ok function.

pod_file_ok( FILENAME, [ TESTNAME ] )

pod_file_ok() will okay the test if there is no http(s) links present in the POD or if all links are not an error. Furthermore, if the POD was malformed as reported by Pod::Simple, the test will fail and not attempt to check the links.

When it fails, pod_file_ok() will show any failing links as diagnostics.

The optional second argument TESTNAME is the name of the test. If it is omitted, pod_file_ok() chooses a default test name "404 test for FILENAME".

EXPORT

Automatically exports the two subs.

SEE ALSO

LWP::UserAgent

Pod::Simple

Test::Pod

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Test::Pod::No404s

Websites

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-No404s

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Test-Pod-No404s

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Test-Pod-No404s

• CPAN Forum

  http://cpanforum.com/dist/Test-Pod-No404s

• RT: CPAN's Request Tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Test-Pod-No404s

• CPANTS Kwalitee

  http://cpants.perl.org/dist/overview/Test-Pod-No404s

• CPAN Testers Results

  http://cpantesters.org/distro/T/Test-Pod-No404s.html

• CPAN Testers Matrix

  http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Pod-No404s

• Git Source Code Repository

  http://github.com/apocalypse/perl-test-pod-no404s

Bugs

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-test-pod-no404s at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Test-Pod-No404s. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

AUTHOR

Apocalypse <apocal@cpan.org>

Thanks to the author of Test::Pod for the basic framework of this module!

Thanks to the POE guys for finding 404 links in their POD, and was the inspiration for this module.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2010 by Apocalypse

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

cpanm Test::Pod::No404s

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Test::Pod::No404s