It's often useful to check that your DBIx::Class classes provide the methods you expect, and no-one has sneakily stolen or broken methods when you weren't looking. Being lazy I wanted to do this with as little fuss and typing as possible. Thanks to Test::DBIx::Class::Schema I can do all of the above and would like to share thoughts and musings for the future of the module.

1. Introduction Test::DBIx::Class::Schema Future Finally
Mostly Lazy DBIx::Class Testing
Chisel Wright
Net-A-Porter
2011
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In A Nutshell
DBIx::Class schema sanity checking tests
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Why?
Ongoing Quest To Be As LAZY As Possible
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Non-Lazy
# are specific columns defined?
my $thingy = $model->resultset(’BigBagOfFail’);
my @columns = qw/id name department/);
can_ok($thingy, @columns);
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Non-Lazy
foreach my $column (@columns) {
try {
$thingy->$column();
ok("called $column()");
}
catch($e) {
diag $e;
fail("$column() failed");
}
}
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Non-Lazy
What about . . . ?
relationships
custom methods
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Non-Lazy
Decide to test something new?
How many .t files do you need to edit?
More than zero?
Too much work!!
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Getting Lazy
Test::DBIx::Class::Schema
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Test::DBIx::Class::Schema
My Attempt At Laziness
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An example (setup)
my $schematest = Test::DBIx::Class::Schema->new({
# required
dsn => ’dbi:Pg:dbname=mydb’,
namespace => ’MyDB::Schema’,
moniker => ’SomeTable’,
# optional
username => ’some_user’,
password => ’opensesame’,
});
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An example (config)
# tell it what to test
$schematest->methods({
columns => [ qw( id name ) ],
relations => [ qw( foo ) ],
custom => [ qw( some_method ) ],
resultsets => [ qw( ) ],
});
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An example (running)
$schematest->run_tests();
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You get. . .
can ok( @columns )
can ok( @relations )
can ok( @customs ) # row subs
can ok( @resultsets ) # rs subs
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You also get. . .
$thing->$column called ok
$thing->$relation called ok
test that $column exists in the database
ensure related-source exists
test self.* and foreign.* columns for relationships
test proxied relationships
PASS/FAIL for relationship validity
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You don’t get
Functional Testing
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Benefits
only maintaining a list (or three)
lots of sanity checking
find out if someone deletes columns from the database
upgrading ’TDCS’ improves *.t files for free
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Recommendations
Test one table/class per file
Use Test::Aggregate
Factor out ->new call for $schema
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In The Real World
on the CPAN since 2008
used in production code since 2009
recent burst of improvements
never used to test empty tables - OOPS!
used to be quite basic
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Did It Work?
YES!
IMNSHO
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What Next?
Wishlist
relationship reciprocity
relationships that are coderefs
db columns that aren’t in the schema?
tie-in with DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader
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End Credits
QUESTIONS?
Me:
chisel.wright@net-a-porter.com
CPANID: CHISEL
github: github.com/chiselwright
Module:
metacpan.org/release/Test-DBIx-Class-Schema
github.com/chiselwright/test-dbix-class-schema
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