Provided by: libtest-file-contents-perl_0.21-1_all bug

Name

       Test::File::Contents - Test routines for examining the contents of files

Synopsis

         use Test::File::Contents;

         file_contents_eq         $file,  $string,  $description;
         file_contents_eq_or_diff $file,  $string,  $description;
         file_contents_like       $file,  qr/foo/,  $description;
         file_md5sum_is           $file,  $md5sum,  $description;
         files_eq                 $file1, $file2,   $description;
         files_eq_or_diff         $file1, $file2,   $description;

Description

       Got an app that generates files? Then you need to test those files to make sure that their
       contents are correct. This module makes that easy. Use its test functions to make sure
       that the contents of files are exactly what you expect them to be.

Interface

   Options
       These test functions take an optional hash reference of options which may include one or
       more of these options:

       "encoding"
           The encoding in which the file is encoded. This will be used in an I/O layer to read
           in the file, so that it can be properly decoded to Perl's internal representation.
           Examples include "UTF-8", "iso-8859-3", and "cp1252". See Encode::Supported for a list
           of supported encodings. May also be specified as a layer, such as ":utf8" or ":raw".
           See perlio for a complete list of layers.

           Note that it's important to specify the encoding if you have non-ASCII characters in
           your file. And the value to be compared against (the string argument to
           "file_contents_eq()" and the regular expression argument to "file_contents_like()",
           for example, must be decoded to Perl's internal form. The simplest way to do so use to
           put

             use utf8;

           In your test file and write it all in "UTF-8". For example:

             use utf8;
             use Test::More tests => 1;
             use Test::File::Contents;

             file_contents_eq('utf8.txt',   'aaaaaa', { encoding => 'UTF-8' });
             file_contents_eq('latin1.txt', 'aaaaaa', { encoding => 'UTF-8' });

       "style"
           The style of diff to output in the diagnostics in the case of a failure in
           "file_contents_eq_or_diff". The possible values are:

           Unified
           Context
           OldStyle
           Table
       "context"
           Determines the amount of context displayed in diagnostic diff output. If you need to
           seem more of the area surrounding different lines, pass this option to determine how
           many more links you'd like to see.

   Test Functions
       file_contents_eq

         file_contents_eq $file, $string, $description;
         file_contents_eq $file, $string, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         file_contents_eq $file, $string, { encoding => ':bytes' }, $description;

       Checks that the file's contents are equal to a string. Pass in a Unix-style file name and
       it will be converted for the local file system. Supported options:

       "encoding"

       The old name for this function, "file_contents_is", remains as an alias.

       file_contents_eq_or_diff

         file_contents_eq_or_diff $file, $string, $description;
         file_contents_eq_or_diff $file, $string, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         file_contents_eq_or_diff $file, $string, { style    => 'context' }, $description;

       Like "file_contents_eq()", only in the event of failure, the diagnostics will contain a
       diff instead of the full contents of the file. This can make it easier to test the
       contents of very large text files, and where only a subset of the lines are different.
       Supported options:

       "encoding"
       "style"
       "context"

       file_contents_ne

         file_contents_ne $file, $string, $description;
         file_contents_ne $file, $string, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         file_contents_ne $file, $string, { encoding => ':bytes' }, $description;

       Checks that the file's contents do not equal a string. Pass in a Unix-style file name and
       it will be converted for the local file system. Supported options:

       "encoding"

       The old name for this function, "file_contents_isnt", remains as an alias.

       file_contents_like

         file_contents_like $file, qr/foo/, $description;
         file_contents_like $file, qr/foo/, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         file_contents_like $file, qr/foo/, { encoding => ':bytes' }, $description;

       Checks that the contents of a file match a regular expression. The regular expression must
       be passed as a regular expression object created by "qr//".  Supported options:

       "encoding"

       file_contents_unlike

         file_contents_unlike $file, qr/foo/, $description;
         file_contents_unlike $file, qr/foo/, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         file_contents_unlike $file, qr/foo/, { encoding => ':bytes' }, $description;

       Checks that the contents of a file do not match a regular expression. The regular
       expression must be passed as a regular expression object created by "qr//". Supported
       options:

       "encoding"

       file_md5sum_is

         file_md5sum_is $file, $md5sum, $description;
         file_md5sum_is $file, $md5sum, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         file_md5sum_is $file, $md5sum, { encoding => ':bytes' }, $description;

       Checks whether a file matches a given MD5 checksum. The checksum should be provided as a
       hex string, for example, "6df23dc03f9b54cc38a0fc1483df6e21".  Pass in a Unix-style file
       name and it will be converted for the local file system. Supported options:

       "encoding"
           Probably not useful unless left unset or set to ":raw".

       The old name for this function, "file_md5sum", remains as an alias.

       files_eq

         files_eq $file1, $file2, $description;
         files_eq $file1, $file2, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         files_eq $file1, $file2, { encoding => ':bytes' }, $description;

       Tests that the contents of two files are the same. Pass in a Unix-style file name and it
       will be converted for the local file system. Supported options:

       "encoding"

       The old name for this function, "file_contents_identical", remains as an alias.

       files_eq_or_diff

         files_eq_or_diff $file1, $file2, $description;
         files_eq_or_diff $file1, $file2, { encoding => 'UTF-8' };
         files_eq_or_diff $file1, $file2, { style    => 'context' }, $description;

       Like "files_eq()", this function tests that the contents of two files are the same. Unlike
       "files_eq()", on failure this function outputs a diff of the two files in the diagnostics.
       Supported options:

       "encoding"
       "style"
       "context"

Authors

       •   Kirrily Robert <skud@cpan.org>

       •   David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

Support

       This module is stored in an open GitHub repository <http://github.com/theory/test-file-
       contents/tree/>. Feel free to fork and contribute!

       Please file bug reports via GitHub Issues <http://github.com/theory/test-file-
       contents/issues/> or by sending mail to bug-Test-File-Contents@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-
       Test-File-Contents@rt.cpan.org>.

Copyright and License

       Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Kirrily Robert. Some Rights Reserved.  Copyright (c) 2007-2011
       David E. Wheeler. Some Rights Reserved.

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