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Test::Base::Filter(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Test::Base::Filter(3pm)
 

NAME

Test::Base::Filter - Default Filter Class for Test::Base

SYNOPSIS

      package MyTestSuite;
      use Test::Base -Base;
      ... reusable testing code ...
      package MyTestSuite::Filter;
      use Test::Base::Filter -Base;
      sub my_filter1 {
          ...
      }

DESCRIPTION

Filters are the key to writing effective data driven tests with Test::Base. Test::Base::Filter is a class containing a large default set of generic filters. You can easily subclass it to add/override functionality.

FILTERS

This is a list of the default stock filters (in alphabetic order):
"append"
list => list
Append a string to each element of a list. 
    --- numbers lines chomp append=-#\n join
    one
    two
    three
"array"
list => scalar
Turn a list of values into an anonymous array reference.
"base64_decode"
scalar => scalar
Decode base64 data. Useful for binary tests.
"base64_encode"
scalar => scalar
Encode base64 data. Useful for binary tests.
"chomp"
list => list
Remove the final newline from each string value in a list.
"chop"
list => list 
    Remove the final char from each string value in a list.
"dumper"
scalar => list
Take a data structure (presumably from another filter like eval) and use Data::Dumper to dump it in a canonical fashion.
"escape"
scalar => scalar
Unescape all backslash escaped chars.
"eval"
scalar => list
Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and use the returned value as the data.
"eval_all"
scalar => list
Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and return a list of 4 values: 
    1) The return value
    2) The error in $@
    3) Captured STDOUT
    4) Captured STDERR
"eval_stderr"
scalar => scalar
Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and return the captured STDERR.
"eval_stdout"
scalar => scalar
Run Perl's "eval" command against the data and return the captured STDOUT.
"exec_perl_stdout"
list => scalar
Input Perl code is written to a temp file and run. STDOUT is captured and returned.
"flatten"
scalar => list
Takes a hash or array ref and flattens it to a list.
"get_url"
scalar => scalar
The text is chomped and considered to be a url. Then LWP::Simple::get is used to fetch the contents of the url.
"hash"
list => scalar
Turn a list of key/value pairs into an anonymous hash reference.
"head[=number]"
list => list
Takes a list and returns a number of the elements from the front of it. The default number is one.
"join"
list => scalar
Join a list of strings into a scalar.
"Join"
Join the list of strings inside a list of array refs and return the strings in place of the array refs.
"lines"
scalar => list
Break the data into an anonymous array of lines. Each line (except possibly the last one if the "chomp" filter came first) will have a newline at the end.
"norm"
scalar => scalar
Normalize the data. Change non-Unix line endings to Unix line endings.
"prepend=string"
list => list
Prepend a string onto each of a list of strings.
"read_file"
scalar => scalar
Read the file named by the current content and return the file's content.
"regexp[=xism]"
scalar => scalar
The "regexp" filter will turn your data section into a regular expression object. You can pass in extra flags after an equals sign.
If the text contains more than one line and no flags are specified, then the 'xism' flags are assumed.
"reverse"
list => list
Reverse the elements of a list.
"Reverse"
list => list
Reverse the list of strings inside a list of array refs.
"slice=x[,y]"
list => list
Returns the element number x through element number y of a list.
"sort"
list => list
Sorts the elements of a list in character sort order.
"Sort"
list => list
Sort the list of strings inside a list of array refs.
"split[=string|pattern]"
scalar => list
Split a string in into a list. Takes a optional string or regexp as a parameter. Defaults to s+. Same as Perl "split".
"Split[=string|pattern]"
list => list
Split each of a list of strings and turn them into array refs.
"strict"
scalar => scalar
Prepend the string: 
    use strict;
    use warnings;
to the block's text.
"tail[=number]"
list => list
Return a number of elements from the end of a list. The default number is one.
"trim"
list => list
Remove extra blank lines from the beginning and end of the data. This allows you to visually separate your test data with blank lines.
"unchomp"
list => list
Add a newline to each string value in a list.
"write_file[=filename]"
scalar => scalar
Write the content of the section to the named file. Return the filename.
"yaml"
scalar => list
Apply the YAML::Load function to the data block and use the resultant structure. Requires YAML.pm.

AUTHOR

Ingy doet Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2005-2014. Ingy doet Net. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
2014-08-09 perl v5.18.2