Maypole::CLI(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Maypole::CLI(3)NAMEMaypole::CLI - Command line interface to Maypole for testing and
debugging
SYNOPSIS
% setenv MAYPOLE_TEMPLATES /var/www/beerdb/
% perl -MMaypole::CLI=BeerDB -e1 http://localhost/beerdb/brewery/frontpage
DESCRIPTION
This module is used to test Maypole sites without going through a web
server or modifying them to use a CGI frontend. To use it, you should
first either be in the template root for your Maypole site or set the
environment variable "MAYPOLE_TEMPLATES" to the right value.
Next, you import the "Maypole::CLI" module specifying your base Maypole
subclass. The usual way to do this is with the "-M" flag: "perl
-MMaypole::CLI=MyApp". This is equivalent to:
use Maypole::CLIqw(MyApp);
Now Maypole will automatically call your application's handler with the
URL specified as the first command line parameter. This should be the
full URL, starting from whatever you have defined as the "uri_base" in
your application's configuration, and may include query parameters.
The Maypole HTML output should then end up on standard output.
Support for testing
The module can also be used as part of a test script.
When used programmatically, rather than from the command line, its
behaviour is slightly different.
Although the URL is taken from @ARGV as normal, your application's
"handler" method is not called automatically, as it is when used on the
command line; you need to call it manually. Additionally, when
"handler" is called, the output is not printed to standard output but
stored in $Maypole::CLI::buffer, to allow you to check the contents
more easily.
For instance, a test script could look like this:
use Test::More tests => 3;
use Maypole::CLIqw(BeerDB);
use Maypole::Constants;
$ENV{MAYPOLE_TEMPLATES} = "t/templates";
# Hack because isa_ok only supports object isa not class isa
isa_ok( (bless {},"BeerDB") , "Maypole");
like(BeerDB->call_url("http://localhost/beerdb/"), qr/frontpage/, "Got the front page");
like(BeerDB->call_url("http://localhost/beerdb/beer/list"), qr/Organic Best/, "Found a beer in the list");
METHODS
call_url
for use in scripts. takes an url as argument, and returns the
buffer.
Implementation
This class overrides a set of methods in the base Maypole class to
provide it's functionality. See Maypole for these:
get_template_root
parse_args
parse_location
send_output
warn
perl v5.14.1 2007-06-06 Maypole::CLI(3)
