• NAME
• VERSION
• DESCRIPTION
• SYNOPSIS
• METHODS
• Class Methods
• new
• prepare
• open_test
• summary

NAME

TAP::Formatter::Base - Base class for harness output delegates

VERSION

Version 3.42

DESCRIPTION

This provides console orientated output formatting for TAP::Harness.

SYNOPSIS

 use TAP::Formatter::Console;
 my $harness = TAP::Formatter::Console->new( \%args );

METHODS

Class Methods

new

 my %args = (
    verbose => 1,
 )
 my $harness = TAP::Formatter::Console->new( \%args );

The constructor returns a new TAP::Formatter::Console object. If a the TAP::Harness manpage is created with no formatter a TAP::Formatter::Console is automatically created. If any of the following options were given to TAP::Harness->new they well be passed to this constructor which accepts an optional hashref whose allowed keys are:

• verbosity
  Set the verbosity level.

• verbose
  Printing individual test results to STDOUT.

• timer
  Append run time for each test to output. Uses the Time::HiRes manpage if available.

• failures
  Show test failures (this is a no-op if verbose is selected).

• comments
  Show test comments (this is a no-op if verbose is selected).

• quiet
  Suppressing some test output (mostly failures while tests are running).

• really_quiet
  Suppressing everything but the tests summary.

• silent
  Suppressing all output.

• errors
  If parse errors are found in the TAP output, a note of this will be made in the summary report. To see all of the parse errors, set this argument to true:

    errors => 1

• directives
  If set to a true value, only test results with directives will be displayed. This overrides other settings such as verbose, failures, or comments.

• stdout
  A filehandle for catching standard output.

• color
  If defined specifies whether color output is desired. If color is not defined it will default to color output if color support is available on the current platform and output is not being redirected.

• jobs
  The number of concurrent jobs this formatter will handle.

• show_count
  Boolean value. If false, disables the X/Y test count which shows up while tests are running.

prepare

Called by Test::Harness before any test output is generated.

This is an advisory and may not be called in the case where tests are being supplied to Test::Harness by an iterator.

open_test

Called to create a new test session. A test session looks like this:

    my $session = $formatter->open_test( $test, $parser );
    while ( defined( my $result = $parser->next ) ) {
        $session->result($result);
        exit 1 if $result->is_bailout;
    }
    $session->close_test;

summary

  $harness->summary( $aggregate );

summary prints the summary report after all tests are run. The first argument is an aggregate to summarise. An optional second argument may be set to a true value to indicate that the summary is being output as a result of an interrupted test run.