[Catalyst-dev] subdomain hook for Catalyst::Test

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:00:47PM -0400, Jason Gottshall wrote:
> Jason Gottshall wrote:
> >Matt S Trout wrote:
> >>Could we not make request() take the domain or something?
> >>
> >>It's currently single argument so adding an options hashref would be 
> >>fine, plus maybe some way to provide default values therefore in the 
> >> cases where we're doing request() from inside other code?
> >
> >Sounds like a nice idea. Maybe the default value could be dealt with at 
> >import time:
> >
> >  use Test::More tests => 2;
> >  use Catalyst::Test 'MyApp', { default_subdomain => 'fizzle' };
> >
> >  ok( request( '/foo/' )->is_success, 'foo succeeds for fizzle' );
> >  ok( request( '/foo/', { subdomain => 'snazzle' } )->is_redirect, 'foo 
> >redirects for snazzle');
> 
> Incidentally, anybody have any suggestions on how to write tests for 
> this behavior? I can't find any tests for Catalyst::Test itself in the 
> test suite. I'm thinking I could use the existing /dump/request action 
> in the TestApp, deserialize the request object (based on examples in the 
> live engine tests) and check that the request URI actually has the 
> subdomain injected properly. Is that sufficient? Is there an existing 
> test script to which I should add this, or would it make more sense to 
> start a new file? And what would I call it? (live_test.t, unit_test.t, 
> test_test_test.t?)

marcus has done a bunch of work on C::Test in 5.80/trunk and I think that
includes some tests for it.

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