On 15/01/16 16:57, Dave Cross wrote: > > I've been writing tests for a Dancer2 app. I'm using Plack::Test. One > thing that I wanted to test was that logged in users get a different > view of the app to logged out visitors. For that I need to set cookies > on the requests that I'm sending to the test app. > > I found this advent calendar article by SawyerX which looked very useful. > > http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/12 > > Following the instructions in that article, I did this: > > my $res = $test->request(POST '/login', [ \%test_user_creds ]); > > $jar->extract_cookies($res); > > I can look at $jar->as_string before and after that line, and I seen > the session cookie being added to the jar. > > Later I do this: > > my $req = GET "/$private_page"; > $jar->add_cookie_header($req); > my $res = $test->request( $req ); > > This doesn't work. And it doesn't work because the session cookies > don't get added to the request object. $jar is a HTTP::Cookies object, > so I looked at the add_cookie_header() method, to find this code at > the start: > > my $self = shift; > my $request = shift || return; > my $url = $request->uri; > my $scheme = $url->scheme; > unless ($scheme =~ /^https?\z/) { > return; > } > > This is where my test goes wrong. My request is just "/$private_page" > - it doesn't have a $scheme (or, indeed, a hostname). And I guess it's > obvious that add_cookie_header needs a domain in order to know which > cookies from the jar to add (my jar only has the correct cookies - but > the method can't know that). > > Looking at the cookie jar, I see that the cookies have been given the > domain "localhost.local". Can I just add "http://localhost.local"; to > the front of my request URL? Is that guaranteed to work in all test > environments? > > Am I missing something here or did that code in the advent calendar > article never work? > > Any advice much appreciated. > > Cheers,
I'm not sure how the code from the advent calendar worked. I always prefix the url with 'http://localhost' though perhaps 'http://127.0.0.1' would be a better option in case resolving localhost is somehow broken. See current pod: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Dancer2/lib/Dancer2/Manual/Testing.pod#Cookies R. PeteM _______________________________________________ dancer-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users
