Hi stevieb, thanks for your answer! This looks really good and I tried to integrate this into my code. Yet I still have problems...

I have a subroutine in my program called like this:

sub search_ldap {                                                     
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+                                                                 
    my ( $self, $ldap ) = @_; 
 
    # get uid, email, ecufreeze, cnum, itimaccess from LDAP
    report LOG_INFO, "Reading from Ldap";
    unless (
             $ldap->searchUser( filter     => '(uid=*)',
                                attributes => "freeze uid dn cnum emai
+l" ) ) 
    {   
        report LOG_ERROR, "Can not list user from LDAP: " . $ldap->get
+Error();
        exit 0;
    }   
 
    return $ldap;
 
}
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In this case $ldap is a Utils::Ldap::CompanyLdap object. when calling $ldap->searchUser this object writes the users into itself. So with the searchUser call, the object itself is altered.

What I tried:

my $m = Mock::Sub->new;                 
my $ldap = Utils::Ldap::CompanyLdap->new;                             
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+                                                                     
+       
                                     
my $mocked_sub = $m->mock(           
    'Utils::Ldap::CompanyLdap::searchUser'
);     

# This is actually a Utils::Ldap::CompanyLdap-Object I copied via Data
+::Dumper
my $return_value = bless ( ... ); 
                                     
$mocked_sub->return_value($return_value);
    
    # cache is an instance of my own object                           
+  
    ok( $cache->search_ldap($my_ldap) );
                                     
    ok( $cache->read_all_userids($my_ldap) );
                                     
is $mocked_sub->called, 1, "searchUser() called ok";
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I was hoping that be putting the object the way I want it to into my return value, the solution would work. The thing is, I noticed searchUser doesn't really return anything, it only appends to the object-instance. So Mock::Sub returns the right thing, but the code continues to work with the old ldap-object. Any Ideas how to solve this?

Greetings and thanks for your insights so far,
yulivee

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