NAME

Test::WWW::Mechanize::Driver::MagicValues - Define Magic Value classes

Magic Classes

FileContents

Stringification of a scalar reference in this class will slurp the file whose name was stored in the reference.

 my $file = "Foo.txt";
 print bless(\$file, "FileContents");  # prints contents of Foo.txt

ApplyTemplate

Stringification of a scalar reference in this class will pass the text of the reference through Template.pm. Some useful variables will be defined.

 my $tmpl = "[% now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') %]";
 print bless(\$tmpl, "ApplyTemplate");  # prints current date

t

The value of $Test::WWW::Mechanize::Driver::CURRENT_GROUP

now

The current date as a DateTime object.

Stacked

Stringification of a scalar reference in this class will slurp the file whose name was stored in the reference.

 my @stack = ( "Foo.txt", "FileContents", "ApplyTemplate" );
 print bless(\@stack, "Stacked");  # fills in and prints template in Foo.txt

AUTHOR

 Dean Serenevy
 dean@serenevy.net
 http://dean.serenevy.net/

COPYRIGHT

This software is hereby placed into the public domain. If you use this code, a simple comment in your code giving credit and an email letting me know that you find it useful would be courteous but is not required.

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SEE ALSO

perl(1).