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.

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 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