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Mostly Lazy DBIx::Class Testing

Chisel Wright
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2011

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In A Nutshell

DBIx::Class schema sanity checking tests

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Why?

Ongoing Quest To Be As LAZY As Possible

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Non-Lazy

# are specific columns defined? my $thingy = $model->resultset(BigBagOfFail); my @columns = qw/id name department/); can_ok($thingy, @columns);

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Non-Lazy

foreach my $column (@columns) { try { $thingy->$column(); ok("called $column()"); } catch($e) { diag $e; fail("$column() failed"); } }

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Non-Lazy

What about . . . ? relationships custom methods

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Non-Lazy

Decide to test something new? How many .t les do you need to edit? More than zero? Too much work!!

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Getting Lazy

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Test::DBIx::Class::Schema

My Attempt At Laziness

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An example (setup)

my $schematest # required dsn => namespace => moniker => # optional username => password => });

= Test::DBIx::Class::Schema->new({ dbi:Pg:dbname=mydb, MyDB::Schema, SomeTable, some_user, opensesame,

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An example (cong)

# tell it what to test $schematest->methods({ columns => [ qw( id name ) ], relations custom => [ qw( foo ) ], => [ qw( some_method ) ],

resultsets => [ qw( ) ], });

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An example (running)

$schematest->run_tests();

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You get. . .

can ok( @columns ) can ok( @relations ) can ok( @customs ) # row subs can ok( @resultsets ) # rs subs

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You also get. . .

$thing->$column called ok $thing->$relation called ok test that $column exists in the database ensure related-source exists test self.* and foreign.* columns for relationships test proxied relationships PASS/FAIL for relationship validity

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You dont get

Functional Testing

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Benets

only maintaining a list (or three) lots of sanity checking nd out if someone deletes columns from the database upgrading TDCS improves *.t les for free

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Recommendations

Test one table/class per le Use Test::Aggregate Factor out ->new call for $schema

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In The Real World

on the CPAN since 2008 used in production code since 2009 recent burst of improvements
never used to test empty tables - OOPS! used to be quite basic

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Did It Work?

YES!
IMNSHO

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What Next?

Wishlist relationship reciprocity relationships that are coderefs db columns that arent in the schema? tie-in with DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader

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End Credits

QUESTIONS?
Me: chisel.wright@net-a-porter.com CPANID: CHISEL github: Module: metacpan.org/release/Test-DBIx-Class-Schema github.com/chiselwright/test-dbix-class-schema github.com/chiselwright

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