On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Ken Williams wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Jess Robinson wrote:
>
> > My module will login to a web service and manipulate data
> > programmatically.. Nothing critical I assure you, just a tool ;) Since
> > theres no dummy/test account that I know of, I'll need the users
> > account/email address and password to login.
>
> Typically you'd add some code to the Makefile.PL or Build.PL that asks the
> user for a username/password to use for testing, and gives the user an option
> to skip those tests. DBI modules often do this, for example (where the
> username/password is for a database to access).
>
> If you're using ExtUtils::MakeMaker, you'll have to find some file to stash
> the information, probably somewhere in t/ . If you're using Module::Build,
> have a look at the notes() method, which is for caching this kind of
> information.
Right, I'd seen a few modules do this, but.. Is there a *standard* way of
doing it? Those Makefile.PLs tend to look cluttered and confusing IMO.. a
nice:
use Test::Auth;
get_user_fields("user", "password");
would be preferable.. (hmmm, could write something that does that, using
IO::Prompt.. anyone interested?)
Jess
