So I have some code I'm testing which relies on a class with a whole bunch of niggling, annoying little methods getting called hither and yon. For the purposes of my tests, however, I really only care about one accessor at the end of the test and what it returns (since some methods are called in void context). I don't care to go through the trouble of mocking all of the other methods. I'm looking for (and can't find) a test version of Class::BlackHole. I'm thinking something like this:

  use Test::Automock;
  my $mock = Test::Automock->('Some::Difficult::Module');
  $mock->add( fetch_my_slippers => sub { 1 } );  # adds this method

  can_ok $object, 'stuff';
  ok $object->stuff, '... and calling it should succeed';

  my @expected = (
    fribble => [ $mock, $object ],
    woobie  => [ $mock ],
  );
  is_deeply $mock->methods_called, \@expected,
    "... with Some::Difficult::Methods doing their thing";
  $mock->reset;

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Test::Automock would simply use autoload to capture all method calls and their arguments. Methods by default would return a true value unless specifically overridden. I'd have to do tricks like overriding isa() and friends, but that seems like it would be a very lightweight method of handling mocked objects.

Is there something which does this? Did I miss anything?

Cheers,
Ovid

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