Re: How to Port https://metacpan.org/module/Test::Run::Plugin::TrimDisplayedFilenames to TAP::Harness

Only hint I have is my own 

  https://metacpan.org/release/App-Prove-Plugin-Idempotent

not sure it helps you with your precise problem.

Kind regards,
Steffen 

Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to know what is the best way to create a plugin for
> https://metacpan.org/module/TAP::Harness which will behave similarly to
> https://metacpan.org/module/Test::Run::Plugin::TrimDisplayedFilenames . I found
> out that the runtests method can accept aliases to be displayed instead of the
> filename itself using an arrayref of [ $test, $alias ], so I can simply wrap
> runtests() in a subclass, process the arguments, and call next::method with the
> modified arguments.
>
> However, I still don't know how to write a plugin like that exactly (and how to
> get prove to recognise it). This section -
> https://metacpan.org/module/TAP::Harness#WRITING-PLUGINS - explains a bit about
> how to do that with some hand-waving, but does not show any complete
> top-to-bottom example, and I could not find anything with a metacpan search.
>
> My motivation for doing this is to port the rest of the functionality I miss in
> Test::Run (which failed to gain mainstream acceptance, and few people
> aside from me are using it) into TAP::Harness.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Shlomi Fish

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