On Oct 19, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Jess Robinson wrote:
My module will login to a web service and manipulate data programmatically.. Nothing critical I assure you, just a tool ;) Since theres no dummy/test account that I know of, I'll need the users account/email address and password to login.
Typically you'd add some code to the Makefile.PL or Build.PL that asks the user for a username/password to use for testing, and gives the user an option to skip those tests. DBI modules often do this, for example (where the username/password is for a database to access).
If you're using ExtUtils::MakeMaker, you'll have to find some file to stash the information, probably somewhere in t/ . If you're using Module::Build, have a look at the notes() method, which is for caching this kind of information.
-Ken
