Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> I'm trying to get code coverage metrics of an apache2 module I'm developing,
> using Devel::Cover. I've figured out a way to do it, but it's a bit hacky
> :-)
>
> Devel::Cover instructs you to run "make test" like so:
>
> HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover make test
>
> to get coverage analysis. What I've done to make the apache server use this
> is:
>
> 1) Add "PerlPassEnv HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES" to my extra.last.conf.in
>
> 2) Add the following block of code to my modperl_extra.pl:
>
> if(
> $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} &&
> $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} =~ m{Devel::Cover}
> ) {
> eval "use Devel::Cover;";
> }
>
> Is this the cleanest way to accomplish this?
it's pretty much the only way at this point. see
http://search.cpan.org/src/GEOFF/Apache-SSLLookup-2.00_04/
for pretty much those exact steps :)
I keep meaning to document this. doc patches much appreciated.
> Ideally I would have liked
> something that could be done with any mod_perl module without adding code to
> the test suite itself...
it can't really be done without making those changes. at least not at the
moment. I guess we could have TestConfigPerl put in the appropriate foo in
the generated httpd.conf though...
--Geoff
