in reply to (jeffa) Re: RFC: Preventing a module from loading
in thread RFC: Preventing a module from loading

In a certain way, my module implements the reverse. Test::MockObject implements faked modules, that always load (or rather are already loaded). My module makes sure that a given module cannot be found via require or use, and that all such calls fail.

This module is solution to the following problem :

I have a module, CGI::Wiki::Simple, which can optionally use HTML::Template. But HTML::Template might not be there, and then I want to fallback onto CGI::Wiki::Simple::NoTemplates, a subclass that provides hardcoded pages. But how do I test that this fallback works ?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Test::More tests => 3; use Test::Without::Module qw( HTML::Template ); BEGIN{ use_ok('CGI::Wiki::Simple') }; my $wiki = CGI::Wiki::Simple->new( PARAMS => { store => {} } # dummy store ); isa_ok($wiki, 'CGI::Wiki::Simple', "The created wiki"); isa_ok($wiki, 'CGI::Wiki::Simple::NoTemplates', "The created wiki");
perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web

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Re: Re: (jeffa) Re: RFC: Preventing a module from loading
by DapperDan (Pilgrim) on Feb 17, 2003 at 00:12 UTC
    You might consider prefixing the JAPH sig in your post with a <hr> or something so it doesn't look like part of your sample code. I don't mean to nit-pick but it did trip me up.

    Thanks for this idea and code by the way; ++.