Re^7: ISA but no farther?

I have no idea. I've never played with MockObject or anything else similar.

It was more an idea to specify an API, so that you provide a way for people to bypass your checks.

In looking, it seems that Test::MockObject gets named through fake_module, and I don't see that it actually keeps track of the class that it's mocking.

I'm still not sure exactly what the overall purpose of this is, so I don't know if just providing a documented way for people to override the check is sufficient. (you could also submit the necessary patches to chromatic for Test::MockObject, so it's been implemented somewhere)

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Re^8: ISA but no farther? by ysth (Canon) on Jul 20, 2006 at 20:28 UTC
Test::MockObject doesn't keep track of the class; you'd have to add a mocks method to it and call ->mocks('OP') in your test script and ->mocks() eq 'OP' in the actual module. Test::MockObject::Extends does keep track, in @{ref($obj)."::ISA"}, but you'd have to say ref($obj) =~ /^T::MO::E::/ to detect a mock object. If people really do need to check for non-subclassed classes, both Test::MockObject types ought to be fixed to make this painless. But I still don't see why that would be necessary.	[reply]

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Re^8: ISA but no farther?
by ysth (Canon) on Jul 20, 2006 at 20:28 UTC

Test::MockObject::Extends does keep track, in @{ref($obj)."::ISA"}, but you'd have to say ref($obj) =~ /^T::MO::E::/ to detect a mock object.

If people really do need to check for non-subclassed classes, both Test::MockObject types ought to be fixed to make this painless. But I still don't see why that would be necessary.

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