NAME

TAP::Harness::Archive - Create an archive of TAP test results

SYNOPSIS

        use TAP::Harness::Archive;
        my $harness = TAP::Harness::Archive->new(\%args);
        $harness->runtests(@tests);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a direct subclass of TAP::Harness and behaves in exactly the same way except for one detail. In addition to outputting a running progress of the tests and an ending summary it can also capture all of the raw TAP from the individual test files or streams into an archive file (".tar" or ".tar.gz").

METHODS

All methods are exactly the same as our base TAP::Harness except for the following.

new
In addition to the options that TAP::Harness allow to this method, we also allow the following:

archive

        This is the name of the archive file to generate. We use
        Archive::Tar in the background so we only support ".tar" and
        ".tar.gz" archive file formats. This can optionally be an existing
        directory that will have the TAP archive's contents deposited
        therein without any file archiving (no Archive::Tar involved).

extra_files

        This is an array reference to extra files that you want to include
        in the TAP archive but which are not TAP files themselves. This is
        useful if you want to include some log files that contain useful
        information about the test run.

extra_properties

        This is a hash reference of extra properties that you've collected
        during your test run. Some things you might want to include are the
        Perl version, the system's architecture, the operating system, etc.

runtests
Takes the same arguments as TAP::Harness's version and returns the same thing (a TAP::Parser::Aggregator object). The only difference is that in addition to the normal test running and progress output we also create the TAP Archive when it's all done.

aggregator_from_archive
This class method will return a TAP::Parser::Aggregator object when given a TAP Archive to open and parse. It's pretty much the reverse of creating a TAP Archive from using "new" and "runtests".

It takes a hash of arguments which are as follows:

archive

        The path to the archive file. This can also be a directory if you
        created the archive as a directory. This is required.

parser_callbacks

        This is a hash ref containing callbacks for the TAP::Parser objects
        that are created while parsing the TAP files. See the TAP::Parser
        documentation for details about these callbacks.

made_parser_callback

        This callback is executed every time a new TAP::Parser object is
        created. It will be passed the new parser object, the name of the
        file to be parsed, and also the full (temporary) path of that file.

meta_yaml_callback

        This is a subroutine that will be called if we find and parse a YAML
        file containing meta information about the test run in the archive.
        The structure of the YAML file will be passed in as an argument.

        my $aggregator = TAP::Harness::Archive->aggregator_from_archive(
            {
                archive          => 'my_tests.tar.gz',
                parser_callbacks => {
                    plan    => sub { warn "Nice to see you plan ahead..." },
                    unknown => sub { warn "Your TAP is bad!" },
                },
                made_parser_callback => sub {
                    my ($parser, $file, $full_path) = @;
                    warn "$file is temporarily located at $fullpath\n";
                }
            
            }
        );

AUTHOR

Michael Peters, "<mpeters at plusthree.com>"

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-tap-harness-archive at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=TAP-Harness-Archive>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc TAP::Harness::Archive

You can also look for information at:

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/TAP-Harness-Archive>
• CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/TAP-Harness-Archive>
• RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=TAP-Harness-Archive>
• Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Harness-Archive>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• A big thanks to Plus Three, LP (<http://www.plusthree.com>) for sponsoring my work on this module and other open source pursuits.
• Andy Armstrong

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2007 Michael Peters, all rights reserved.

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