NAME

Plack::Test - Test PSGI applications with various backends

SYNOPSIS

  use Plack::Test;

  test_psgi
      app => sub {
          my $env = shift;
          return [ 200, [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' ], [ "Hello World" ] ],
      },
      client => sub {
          my $cb = shift;
          my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://localhost/hello");
          my $res = $cb->($req);
          like $res->content, qr/Hello World/;
      };

DESCRIPTION

Plack::Test is an unified interface to test PSGI applications using standard HTTP::Request and HTTP::Response objects. It also allows you to run PSGI applications in various ways, by default using MockHTTP backend but can also use Server backend, which uses one of Plack::Server implementations to run the web server to do live HTTP requests.

OPTIONS

You can specify the Plack::Test backend using the environment variable PLACK_TEST_IMPL or $Plack::Test::Impl package variable.

The available values for the backend are:

MockHTTP

(Default) Creates a PSGI env hash out of HTTP::Request object, runs the PSGI application in-process and returns HTTP::Response.

Server

Runs one of Plack::Server backends (Standalone by default) and sends live HTTP requests to test.

For instance, you can test your application with ServerSimple server backends with:

  > env PLACK_TEST_IMPL=Server PLACK_SERVER=ServerSimple prove -l t/test.t

AUTHOR

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa