Re: Have Harness Run App With No Files?

On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:29 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> TAP::Harness->new({
>   verbosity => $opts->{verbose} || $ENV{TEST_VERBOSE},
>   timer     => $opts->{timer},
>   color     => $opts->{color},
>   exec      => ['psql', '-c'],
> })->runtests('SELECT * FROM tap.runtest()');
>
> However, TAP::Parser only wants raw TAP or a file name. If it's not  
> a file name, it says "No such file or directory." I really want to  
> avoid this. Andy, is there no way to specify that a test isn't a  
> file? Or for me to use
>
>   exec      => ['psql', '-c' 'SELECT * FROM tap.runtest()'],
>
> and then call runtests() with no arguments, and have it call that  
> script once?

Ooh, I figured it out! You can ignore this thread now, but for  
posterity, the above example is actually what works. Because I'm  
passing `exec`, it doesn't check for the presence of the file, it just  
runs the test. :-)

Thanks,

David

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