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.IX Title "App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal 3pm"
.TH App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal 3pm "2016-07-18" "perl v5.22.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal \- Extends App::Cmd::Tester to capture from external subprograms
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 0.331
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 2
\&  use Test::More tests => 4;
\&  use App::Cmd::Tester::CaptureExternal;
\&
\&  use YourApp;
\&
\&  my $result = test_app(YourApp => [ qw(command \-\-opt value) ]);
\&
\&  like($result\->stdout, qr/expected output/, \*(Aqprinted what we expected\*(Aq);
\&
\&  is($result\->stderr, \*(Aq\*(Aq, \*(Aqnothing sent to sderr\*(Aq);
\&
\&  ok($result\->output, "STDOUT concatenated with STDERR");
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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App::Cmd::Tester provides a useful scaffold for testing applications, but it
is unable to capture output generated from any external subprograms that are
invoked from the application.
.PP
This subclass uses an alternate mechanism for capturing output
(Capture::Tiny) that does capture from external programs, with one
major limitation.
.PP
It is not possible to capture externally from both \s-1STDOUT\s0 and \s-1STDERR\s0 while
also having appropriately interleaved combined output.  Therefore, the
\&\f(CW\*(C`output\*(C'\fR from this subclass simply concatenates the two.
.PP
You can still use \f(CW\*(C`output\*(C'\fR for testing if there is any output at all or for
testing if something appeared in either output stream, but you can't rely on
the ordering being correct between lines to \s-1STDOUT\s0 and lines to \s-1STDERR.\s0
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Ricardo Signes.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.