Greetings all,

I've found myself in a position to want to mock out a method call in a module that I've written for the purposes of testing. I can't seem to get it to work, though. First, the setup. My module (let's call it Foo) calls get_param() which is just a normal subroutine in another module (call it Bar) that I wrote. Bar in turn gets a database object from yet another module (call it Baz), gets the correct configuration item from the database, and returns it back. In brief, Foo calls Bar::get_param() calls Baz->get_dbh().

Now, for what I'm trying to do. 

use Test::MockModule;

my $foo = Foo->new();

my $module = new Test->MockModule('Bar');
$module->mock(get_param => sub {return 42});

$foo->method_that_calls_get_param();

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However, it seems that when I invoke get_param from within Foo, it is still calling the default get_param instead of my mocked version. I'm obviously missing something, but I can't glean what it might be from the documentation. Would anyone mind sharing some insight?

Thanks in advance,
thor

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In reply to Test::MockModule question by thor

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