I want to do test-driven development for a Dancer2 plugin I'm building. I'm a bit stymied on how to do unit testing for the plugin's functions. Here's a simplified example:

package Dancer2::Plugin::Menu ;
use 5.010; use strict; use warnings;

use Dancer2::Plugin;

sub BUILD {
  my $plugin = shift;
  $plugin->_do_stuff
}

sub _do_stuff {
  my $plugin = shift;
  print Dumper $plugin;   # does not print anything, undefined
  ...
 return $array_ref;
}
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Now let's say I want to unit test the do_stuff method in the above plugin:

use Test::Most tests => 1, 'die';

BEGIN {
  $ENV{'DANCER_ENVIRONMENT'} = 'testing';
}

package TestApp;
use Dancer2;
use Dancer2::Plugin::Menu;
use Data::Dumper qw 'Dumper';

get '/'     => sub { return 'hello' };
get '/test' => sub { return 'hi' };

# do_stuff method gets called, but no object is passed to it so functi
+on won't work properly
deep_cmp [ '/', '/test' ], Dancer2::Plugin::Menu::do_stuff, 'returns e
+xpected array';
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As pointed out in the comment above, this doesn’t work because the plugin object doesn’t get passed to the method. One possible workaround is to export the do_stuff method and all the other methods I want to unit test with plugin_keywords but this seems hacky. Is there a better approach?

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