[Catalyst] Application Testing, Mocking Apache Headers/Environment

[Tomas Doran]

On 16 Apr 2012, at 07:11, brainbuz wrote:

> In my auto action I have something like:
> 
> $c->{ USERNAME } = $c->engine->env->{ HTTP_COOKIE  } ;#Authenticated via apache 2.4 mod_auth_form
> 
> $c->{ USERRIGHTS } = $c->model( ‘method returning a ref to a list of the rights for $c->{ USERNAME }’);
> 

Writing into the context object like this is fairly disrecommended - using the stash (or adding accessors on your context) is probably nicer..

Also, the authentication framework can probably do most of the heavy lifting for you instead of doing this manually…

Anyway, no matter - the answer you're probably looking for is to use Plack::Middleware::ForceEnv

Cheers
t0m