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NAME

Test2::Compare::Custom - Custom field check for comparisons.

DESCRIPTION

Sometimes you want to do something complicated or unusual when validating a field nested inside a deep data structure. You could pull it out of the structure and test it separately, or you can use this to embed the check. This provides a way for you to write custom checks for fields in deep comparisons.

SYNOPSIS

    my $cus = Test2::Compare::Custom->new(
        name => 'IsRef',
        operator => 'ref(...)',
        code => sub {
            my ($got, $exists, $operator, $name) = @_;
            return ref($got) ? 1 : 0;
        },
    );

    # Pass
    is(
        { a => 1, ref => {},   b => 2 },
        { a => 1, ref => $cus, b => 2 },
        "This will pass"
    );

    # Fail
    is(
        {a => 1, ref => 'notref', b => 2},
        {a => 1, ref => $cus,     b => 2},
        "This will fail"
    );

ARGUMENTS

Your custom sub will be passed 4 arguments:

    code => sub {
        my ($got, $exists, $operator, $name) = @_;
        return ref($got) ? 1 : 0;
    },

$_ is also localized to $got to make it easier for those who need to use regexes.

$got
$_

The value to be checked.

$exists

This will be a boolean. This will be true if $got exists at all. If $exists is false then it means $got is not simply undef, but doesn't exist at all (think checking the value of a hash key that does not exist).

$operator

The operator specified at construction.

$name

The name provided at construction.

METHODS

$code = $cus->code

Returns the coderef provided at construction.

$name = $cus->name

Returns the name provided at construction.

$op = $cus->operator

Returns the operator provided at construction.

$bool = $cus->verify(got => $got, exists => $bool)

SOURCE

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Suite/.

MAINTAINERS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

AUTHORS

Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2016 Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/