NAME

       Module::Faker - build fake dists for testing CPAN tools

VERSION

       version 0.022

SYNOPSIS

         Module::Faker->make_fakes({
           source => './dir-of-specs', # ...or a single file
           dest   => './will-contain-tarballs',
         });

   DESCRIPTION
       Module::Faker is a tool for building fake CPAN modules and, perhaps more importantly, fake
       CPAN distributions.  These are useful for running tools that operate against CPAN
       distributions without having to use real CPAN distributions.  This is much more useful
       when testing an entire CPAN instance, rather than a single distribution, for which see
       CPAN::Faker.

METHODS

   make_fakes
         Module::Faker->make_fakes(\%arg);

       This method creates a new Module::Faker and builds archives in its destination directory
       for every dist-describing file in its source directory.  See the "new" method below.

   new
         my $faker = Module::Faker->new(\%arg);

       This create the new Module::Faker.  All arguments may be accessed later by methods of the
       same name.  Valid arguments are:

         source - the directory in which to find source files
         dest   - the directory in which to construct dist archives

         dist_class - the class used to fake dists; default: Module::Faker::Dist

       The source files are essentially a subset of CPAN::Meta files with some optional extra
       features.  All the you really require are the name and abstract.  Other bits like
       requirements can be specified and will be passed through.  Out of the box the module will
       create the main module file based on the module name and a single test file.  You can
       either use the provides section of the CPAN::META file or to specify their contents use
       the X_Module_Faker append section.

       The X_Module_Faker also allows you to alter the cpan_author from the default 'LOCAL
       <LOCAL@cpan.local>' which overrides whatever is in the usual CPAN::Meta file.

       Here is an example yaml specification from the tests,

           name: Append
           abstract: nothing to see here
           provides:
             Provides::Inner:
               file: lib/Provides/Inner.pm
               version: 0.001
             Provides::Inner::Util:
               file: lib/Provides/Inner.pm
           X_Module_Faker:
             cpan_author: SOMEONE
             append:
               - file: lib/Provides/Inner.pm
                 content: "\n=head1 NAME\n\nAppend - here I am"
               - file: t/foo.t
                 content: |
                   use Test::More;
               - file: t/foo.t
                 content: "ok(1);"

       If you need to sort the packages within a file you can use an X_Module_Faker:order
       parameter on the provides class.

           provides:
             Provides::Inner::Sorted::Charlie:
               file: lib/Provides/Inner/Sorted.pm
               version: 0.008
               X_Module_Faker:
                 order: 2
             Provides::Inner::Sorted::Alfa:
               file: lib/Provides/Inner/Sorted.pm
               version: 0.001
               X_Module_Faker:
                 order: 1

       The supported keys from CPAN::Meta are,

       •   abstract

       •   license

       •   name

       •   release_status

       •   version

       •   provides

       •   prereqs

       •   x_authority

AUTHOR

       Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   Colin Newell <colin.newell@gmail.com>

       •   David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

       •   David Steinbrunner <dsteinbrunner@pobox.com>

       •   Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@imaginative-software.com>

       •   Moritz Onken <onken@netcubed.de>

       •   Randy Stauner <randy@magnificent-tears.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Ricardo Signes.

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