[Catalyst-dev] RFC: Catalyst::Test::LocalContext

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:32:03AM +0200, Sebastian Willert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I often found myself wanting to test some internal aspects of my request
> handling in Catalyst or were to lazy to check the full returned HTML and
> rather just inspect the stack.
> 
> For this purpose I expanded Catalyst::Test and threw away its remote
> functionality. So without further ado, I'd like to ask for your comments
> on this idea/module/name. POD follows.

The $c mocking stuff should be separate so it can be used for unit testing.

The "test $c afterwards" stuff, maybe it should be possible to throw a
Dumper-isation of $c over the wire or something.

More interestingly, does anybody ever actually use the remote stuff in ::Test
directly?

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