NAME

Plack::Test::Agent - OO interface for testing low-level Plack/PSGI apps

VERSION

version 1.20111011

SYNOPSIS

    use Test::More;
    use Plack::Test::Agent;

    my $app          = sub { ... };
    my $local_agent  = Plack::Test::Agent->new( app => $app );
    my $server_agent = Plack::Test::Agent->new(
                        app    => $app,
                        server => 'HTTP::Server::Simple' );

    my $local_res    = $local_agent->get( '/' );
    my $server_res   = $server_agent->get( '/' );

    ok $local_res->is_success,  'local GET / should succeed';
    ok $server_res->is_success, 'server GET / should succeed';

DESCRIPTION

Plack::Test::Agent is an OO interface to test PSGI applications. It can perform GET and POST requests against PSGI applications either in process or over HTTP through a Plack::Handler compatible backend.

NOTE: This is an experimental module and its interface may change.

CONSTRUCTION

The new constructor creates an instance of Plack::Test::Agent. This constructor takes one mandatory named argument and several optional arguments.

• app is the mandatory argument. You must provide a PSGI application to test.

• server is an optional argument. When provided, Plack::Test::Agent will attempt to start a PSGI handler and will communicate via HTTP to the application running through the handler. See Plack::Loader for details on selecting the appropriate server.

• host is an optional argument representing the name or IP address for the server to use. The default is localhost.

• port is an optional argument representing the TCP port to for the server to use. If not provided, the service will run on a randomly selected available port outside of the IANA reserved range. (See Test::TCP for details on the selection of the port number.)

• ua is an optional argument of something which conforms to the LWP::UserAgent interface such that it provides a request method which takes an HTTP::Request object and returns an HTTP::Response object. The default is an instance of LWP::UserAgent.

METHODS

This class provides several useful methods:

get

This method takes a URI and makes a GET request against the PSGI application with that URI. It returns an HTTP::Response object representing the results of that request.

post

This method takes a URI and makes a POST request against the PSGI application with that URI. It returns an HTTP::Response object representing the results of that request. As an optional second parameter, pass an array reference of key/value pairs for the form content:

    $agent->post( '/edit_user',
        [
            shoe_size => '10.5',
            eye_color => 'blue green',
            status    => 'twin',
        ]);

execute_request

This method takes an HTTP::Request, performs it against the bound app, and returns an HTTP::Response. This allows you to craft your own requests directly.

CREDITS

Thanks to Zbigniew Łukasiak and Tatsuhiko Miyagawa for suggestions.

AUTHOR

chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by chromatic.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.