Re: mod_perl and Apache::Test

Torsten Förtsch <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:37:20 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 10/09/2012 10:44 AM, Jean-Michel wrote:
> I have some mod_perl modules that implement REST services. I want to 
> test them with Apache::Test. So, I have some questions :
> 
> - Is it possible to use DELETE method with Apache::Test ? I didn't
> find any examples

$ perl -MApache::TestRequest -le '
    print Apache::TestRequest::user_agent, " is a ",
          @Apache::TestRequest::ISA
'
Apache::TestRequest=HASH(0x626ab8) is a LWP::UserAgent

So, at least if LWP is installed Apache::TestRequest::user_agent()
returns the user agent object which is a LWP::UserAgent.

That means you can call any method you want, even HUGO:

$ perl -MApache::TestRequest -e '
    print Apache::TestRequest::user_agent->request
      (HTTP::Request->new(HUGO=>"http://opi.home/"))->as_string
'
HTTP/1.1 501 Method Not Implemented
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:13:53 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0e DAV/2
mod_apreq2-20090110/2.8.0 mod_perl/2.0.6threading9 Perl/v5.12.3
Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE
Content-Length: 206
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Client-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:13:53 GMT
Client-Peer: 192.168.0.4:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Title: 501 Method Not Implemented

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>501 Method Not Implemented</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Method Not Implemented</h1>
<p>HUGO to / not supported.<br />
</p>
</body></html>

> - I want to send JSON data with POST method (not with 
> x-www-form-urlencode). I can do that with cURL, but to do it with 
> Apache::Test ?

Again, HTTP::Request allows you to format almost any request you want:

perl -MApache::TestRequest -e '
    print HTTP::Request->new(HUGO=>"http://opi.home/",
             HTTP::Headers->new(Fritz=>"Fratz"),
             "blah blub"
          )->as_string
'
HUGO http://opi.home/
Fritz: Fratz

blah blub

Unfortunately, you didn't say what you want to use instead of
x-www-form-urlencode. So, I assume you want to use form-data. In that
case this piece of code should do it:

$resp=POST $uri,
           Content_Type=>'form-data',
           Content=>[KEY=>VALUE, ...];

Torsten