Let's assume I have a module which needs 3 import parameters.

package My::Test;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Carp;

sub import
{
    my $class = shift;
    croak "Number of import parameters is wrong, stopped " unless @_ =
+= 3;
    # ...
}

1;

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The good case I can check with use_ok. But the bad cases are my problem, e.g. use this class with less than 3 parameters.

use My::Test "Param1", "Param2"; # dies because it are 2 params and no
+t 3 as expected

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I want to test that this exception was thrown and I also want to check its error message for correctness. Usually I use throws_ok for this. But in this case it doesn't work because the use command is at compile time. I have no idea how to test for this exception.

Thanks for your help!

In reply to Testing of exception during import by Dirk80

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