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package Dancer2::Manual::Testing;
# ABSTRACT: Writing tests for Dancer2

use strict;
use warnings;

1;

__END__

=pod

=encoding UTF-8

=head1 NAME

Dancer2::Manual::Testing - Writing tests for Dancer2

=head1 VERSION

version 2.0.1

=head1 Basic application testing

Since L<Dancer2> produces PSGI applications, you can easily write tests using
L<Plack::Test> and provide your Dancer application as the app for testing.

A basic test (which we also scaffold with L<dancer2>) looks like this:

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Test::More tests => 4;
    use Plack::Test;
    use HTTP::Request::Common;

    use_ok('MyApp');

    # create an application
    my $app = MyApp->to_app;
    isa_ok( $app, 'CODE' );

    # create a testing object
    my $test = Plack::Test->create($app);

    # now you can call requests on it and get responses
    # requests are of HTTP::Request
    # responses are of HTTP::Response

    # "GET" from HTTP::Request::Common creates an HTTP::Request object
    my $response = $test->request( GET '/' );

    # same as:
    # my $response = $test->request( HTTP::Request->new( GET => '/' ) );

    ok( $response->is_success, 'Successful request' );
    is( $response->content, 'OK', 'Correct response content' );

Read the documentation for L<HTTP::Request> and L<HTTP::Request::Common> to
see the different options for sending parameters.

=head3 Subtests

Tests can be separated using L<Test::More>'s C<subtest> functionality,
thus creating multiple self-contained tests that don't affect each other.

Assuming we have a different app that we want to test:

    # MyApp.pm
    package MyApp;
    use Dancer2;
    set serializer => 'JSON';

    my %users = (
        jason => {
            name  => 'Jason',
            likes => 'planes',
        },
        yanick => {
            name => 'Yanick',
            likes => 'orchids',
        }
    );

    get '/:user' => sub {
        my $user = route_parameters->get('user');

        my $user_data = $users{$user};

        if( $user_data ) {
            return { user => $user_data };
        }

        status 404;

        return {
            error => 1,
            message => 'user not found'
        }
    };

    1;

This is an example of tests for that route ensuring 
that we have the correct behavior with regard to the user 
parameter.

    # param.t
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Test::More;
    use Plack::Test;
    use HTTP::Request::Common;
    use JSON qw/ decode_json /;

    use MyApp;

    # swap 'null' for 'note' to see the logs in your TAP output
    MyApp::set( logger => 'null' );

    my $test = Plack::Test->create( MyApp->to_app );

    subtest 'An empty request' => sub {
        my $res = $test->request( GET '/' );
        is $res->code => 404, 'user not provided, so not found';
    };

    subtest 'Request with invalid user' => sub {
        my $res = $test->request( GET '/sawyer_x' );

        ok !$res->is_success, 'user not found';
        is $res->code => 404, 'ressource not found';

        is decode_json($res->content)->{message}, 'user not found', 'error message';
    };

    subtest 'Request with valid user' => sub {
        my $res = $test->request( GET '/jason' );

        ok $res->is_success, 'user found';

        is decode_json($res->content)->{user}{likes}, 'planes', 'data present';
    };

    done_testing();

=head1 Cookies

To handle cookies, which are mostly used for maintaining sessions,
the following modules can be used:

=over 4

=item * L<Test::WWW::Mechanize::PSGI>

=item * L<LWP::Protocol::PSGI>

=item * L<HTTP::Cookies>

=back

Taking the previous test, assuming it actually creates and uses
cookies for sessions (see L<cookie|Dancer2::Manual/"Setting and Updating
Cookies"> and perhaps L<Dancer2::Session::Cookie> for more information on how
to do that):

     # ... all the use statements
     use HTTP::Cookies;

     my $jar  = HTTP::Cookies->new;
     my $test = Plack::Test->create( MyApp->to_app );

     subtest 'Request with invalid user' => sub {
         my $req = GET '/sawyer_x';
         $jar->add_cookie_header($req);
         my $res = $test->request($req);
         ok !$res->is_success, 'Request failed';
         $jar->extract_cookies($res);

         ok !$jar->as_string, 'All cookies deleted';
     };

     subtest 'Request with user' => sub {
         my $req = GET '/jason';
         $jar->add_cookie_header($req);
         my $res = $test->request($req);
         ok $res->is_success, 'Successful request';
         $jar->extract_cookies($res);

         ok !$jar->as_string, 'All cookies deleted';
     };

     done_testing();

If you don't want to use an entire user agent for this test, you can use
L<HTTP::Cookies> to store cookies and then retrieve them:

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Test::More tests => 3;
    use Plack::Test;
    use HTTP::Request::Common;
    use HTTP::Cookies;

    use_ok('MyApp');

    my $url  = 'http://localhost';
    my $jar  = HTTP::Cookies->new();
    my $test = Plack::Test->create( MyApp->to_app );

    subtest 'Create session' => sub {
        my $res = $test->request( GET "$url/login" );
        ok( $res->is_success, 'Successful login' );

        # extract cookies from the response and store in the jar
        $jar->extract_cookies($res);
    };

    subtest 'Check session' => sub {
        my $req = GET "$url/logout";

        # add cookies to the request
        $jar->add_cookie_header($req);

        my $res = $test->request($req);
        ok( $res->is_success, 'Successful logout' );
        like(
            $res->content,
            'Successfully logged out',
            'Got correct log out content',
        );
    };

Please note that the request URL must include scheme and host for the call
to L<HTTP::Cookies/add_cookie_header> to work.

=head3 Accessing the configuration file

By importing Dancer2 in the test files, there is full
access to the configuration using the imported keywords:

     use strict;
     use warnings;
     use Test::More;
     use Plack::Test;
     use HTTP::Request::Common;
     use MyApp;
     use Dancer2;

     my $appname = config->{'appname'};
     diag "Testing $appname";

     # ...

=head1 Plugins

In order to test plugins, you can create an application on the spot, as
part of the test script code, and use the plugin there.

    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use Test::More tests => 2;
    use Plack::Test;
    use HTTP::Request::Common;

    {
        package MyTestApp;
        use Dancer2;
        use Dancer2::Plugin::MyPlugin;

        get '/' => sub { my_keyword };
    }

    my $test = Plack::Test->create( MyTestApp->to_app );
    my $res  = $test->request( GET '/' );

    ok( $res->is_success, 'Successful request' );
    is( $res->content, 'MyPlugin-MyKeyword', 'Correct content' );

=head1 AUTHOR

Dancer Core Developers

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Alexis Sukrieh.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

=cut