[Catalyst] Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst and POST

Michael Alan Dorman mdorman at tendentious.org
Mon May 15 15:10:31 CEST 2006


Toby Corkindale <toby at ymogen.net> writes:
> Ah, so once again, I am making the mistake of reading and *believing* 
> the fine documentation? :(

You may have read it and believed it, but apparently you didn't think
through the implications of it.

The first paragraph of the T::W::M::C docs say:

 Catalyst is an elegant MVC Web Application
 Framework. Test::WWW::Mechanize is a sub-class of WWW::Mechanize that
 incorporates features for web application testing.  The
 Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst module meshes the two to allow easy
 testing of Catalyst applications without starting up a web server.

"sub-class" means that it inherits functionality from W::M.  It is
neither sensible nor appropriate for T::W::M or T::W::M::C to
recapitulate the documentation for all of their parent classes (where
does one stop---should all modules document isa()?).  The
documentation for W::M, though, has tons of discussion of stuff like
submit_form.

Mike
-- 
Got to be a chocolate Jesus



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