Email::Send::Test(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Email::Send::Test(3)NAMEEmail::Send::Test - Captures emails sent via Email::Send for testing
SYNOPSIS
# Load as normal
use Email::Send;
use Email::Send::Test;
# Always clear the email trap before each test to prevent unexpected
# results, and thus spurious test results.
Email::Send::Test->clear;
### BEGIN YOUR CODE TO BE TESTED (example follows)
my $sender = Email::Send->new({ mailer => 'Test' });
$sender->send( $message );
### END YOUR CODE TO BE TESTED
# Check that the number and type (and content) of mails
# matched what you expect.
my @emails = Email::Send::Test->emails;
is( scalar(@emails), 1, 'Sent 1 email' );
isa_ok( $emails[0], 'Email::MIME' ); # Email::Simple subclasses pass through
DESCRIPTIONEmail::Send::Test is a driver for use in testing applications that use
Email::Send to send email.
To be able to use it in testing, you will need some sort of
configuration mechanism to specify the delivery method to be used, or
some other way that in your testing scripts you can convince your code
to use "Test" as the mailer, rather than "Sendmail" or another real
mailer.
How does it Work
Email::Send::Test is a trap for emails. When an email is sent, it adds
the emails to an internal array without doing anything at all to them,
and returns success to the caller.
If your application sends one email, there will be one in the trap. If
you send 20, there will be 20, and so on.
A typical test will involve doing running some code that should result
in an email being sent, and then checking in the trap to see if the
code did actually send out the email.
If you want you can get the emails out the trap and examine them. If
you only care that something got sent you can simply clear the trap and
move on to your next test.
The Email Trap
The email trap is a simple array fills with whatever is sent.
When you send an email, it is pushed onto the end of the array. You can
access the array directly if you wish, or use the methods provided.
METHODS
send $message
As for every other Email::Send mailer, "send" takes the message to be
sent.
However, in our case there are no arguments of any value to us, and so
they are ignored.
It is worth nothing that we do NOTHING to check or alter the email. For
example, if we are passed "undef" it ends up as is in the trap. In this
manner, you can see exactly what was sent without any possible
tampering on the part of the testing mailer.
Of course, this doesn't prevent any tampering by Email::Send itself :)
Always returns true.
emails
The "emails" method is the prefered and recommended method of getting
access to the email trap.
In list context, returns the content of the trap array as a list.
In scalar context, returns the number of items in the trap.
clear
The "clear" method resets the trap, emptying it.
It is recommended you always clear the trap before each test to ensure
any existing emails are removed and don't create a spurious test
result.
Always returns true.
deliveries
This method returns a list of arrayrefs, one for each call to "send"
that has been made. Each arrayref is in the form:
[ $mailer, $email, \@rest ]
The first element is the invocant on which "send" was called. The
second is the email that was given to "send". The third is the rest of
the arguments given to "send".
SUPPORT
All bugs should be filed via the CPAN bug tracker at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Email-Send-Test
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Email-Send-Test>
For other issues, or commercial enhancement or support, contact the
author.
AUTHORS
Current maintainer: Ricardo SIGNES, <rjbs@cpan.org>.
Original author: Adam Kennedy <cpan@ali.as>, <http://ali.as/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2004 - 2005 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved. This
program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
with this module.
perl v5.14.1 2009-07-12 Email::Send::Test(3)
