byterock

It carry on testing developing day here in the Moose-Pen.

I left off yesterday with a new Test::Utils->sql_param_ok sub that is going to save a good deal of coding effort as I move forward once I get all the tests up to the new standard of curse, (one foot forward one and a half steps back)

Today I am going to carry on with alias testing this time I am checking basic field alias. To accomplish this I changed the 'elements' in my $in_hash to ones with field aliases;

$in_hash->{elements}= [

        {

            name => 'last_name',

            alias=>  'last'

        },

        {

            name => 'first_name',

            alias=> 'first'

        },

    ];

Next I want to change only the 'retrieve' test a little by update the sql like this

$tests->[0]->{retrieve}->{sql}="SELECT sys_users.last_name AS last, sys_users.first_name AS first FROM people sys_users";

to one that expects the SQL keyword 'AS' followed by the 'alias'. Then I just just the same test again and finally I change the caption of the tests so I can tell them apart and I run my test;

...

$tests->[0]->{caption} = "Basic field alias";

$utils->sql_param_ok($in_hash,$tests);

and I get

… ok 6 - Basic table alias delete SQL correct ok 7 - Basic Field alias create SQL correct ok 8 - Basic Field alias create params correct ok 9 - Basic Field alias retrieve SQL correct ok 10 - Basic Field alias update SQL correct ok 11 - Basic Field alias update params correct ok 12 - Basic Field alias delete SQL correct

so that was easy.

Now the hard part putting together a more extensive test suite. I did sort of bounce about a bunch when I was initially putting it together and now the very early tests are testing params which I originally started testing much later. Since I have some major test re-writing I might as well get things in a more orderly format.

So I will keep '15_alias.t' where it is now, but '20_where_basic.t' is not in the right place. I think I will test the fields and params first then move on to the 'Where' clause. So in the end what I will have is

• 15_alias.t
• Tests the table and field alias basic params
• 20_fields.t
• Tests the various fields, element, param, expression, and function
• 25_exe_array.t
• Tests the execute array of params

Then I think I will move onto the other clauses. So I guess it is just a postette for today.