[Catalyst] setting/getting session data from within tests

[Matt S Trout]

Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> but sometimes you have to, to get a reasonable level of usability ... eg:
> 
> In my app, the user selects his language. Either language is stored in
> the session once selected, or you make him select anew every visit,
> and pass the value back and fore every request. My current
> implementation of engoi does this, but it's not pretty.
> 
> Same for any app where you have a members system with a persistent login.
 >
> Anyhow, I'm thinking that there is a persistent store for this
> *somewhere* under the guts of cat. It's just a case of making an
> interface to it which is accessible to the test framework.

Why bother?

t/lib/MyApp/Controller/Test.pm

sub dump_stuff :Local {
   <lob contents of session etc. into $c->res->body here>
}

in your test

use lib qw(t/lib);

then get the data via a mech request to /test/dump_stuff ...