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I am getting close to finishing off my first Paws patch.

I left off with this test failing

not ok 27 - got exception # Failed test 'got exception' # at t/11_client_exceptions.t line 104. # expecting: Paws::Exception # found: Moose::Exception::ValidationFailedForTypeConstraint (Attribute (host_id) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for 'Str' with value undef at /wwwveh/lib/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Moose/Meta/Class.pm line 275 # Moose::Meta::Class::new_object at (eval 429) line 28 # Throwable::Error::new at /home/scolesj/aws-sdk-perl/lib/Paws/Net/RestXMLResponse.pm line 60 # Paws::Net::RestXMLResponse::error_to_exception at /home/scolesj/aws-sdk-perl/lib/Paws/Net/RestXMLResponse.pm line 25 # Paws::Net::RestXMLResponse::process at /home/scolesj/aws-sdk-perl/lib/Paws/Net/FurlCaller.pm line 48 # Paws::Net::FurlCaller::caller_to_response at /home/scolesj/aws-sdk-perl/lib/Paws/Net/MockCaller.pm line 116 # Paws::Net::MockCaller::caller_to_response at /home/scolesj/aws-sdk-perl/lib

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As many of you out there in blog-land know I have done many many many posts on Moose so I was quickly able to read the Moose Poop above and get to the heart of the problem.

This is the real problem

Attribute (host_id) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for 'Str' with value undef

In this test case in the background someplace, it does not really matter where. I am setting that new exception attribute 'host_id' to undef.

A very easy fix in the 'Paws::Exception' class

 

  has host_id  => (

    is => 'ro',

 --   isa => 'Str,

 ++  isa => 'Str|Undef',

  );

and on my next run I get-object

1..174 ok All tests successful.

Now the good thing is that change to the env of mine make test case t/14_dns_client_errors.t fail in the same way as it does when run with 'make test' so I can at least debug it now.

After a great deal of huffing and puffing I finally figured it out. I am not going to go into some 2 hours of debug runs and changes in the end it was in the 'lib/Paws/Net/XMLResponse.pm' where it throws a new exception rather than returning an error

    if ($@){
--    return Paws::Exception->throw(
++    return Paws::Exception->new(

and this was causing problems with the call out to Mojo as you had the case of a error in an error but in the end I caused another error in this

prove t/25_error_on_malformed_response.t

can't call method "code" without a package or object reference at t/25_error_on_malformed_response.t line 269.

and looking in there we have

throws_ok(
    sub {
      $s->Method3(response => 'notanxmlstring', status => $status)
    },
    "Paws::Exception",
  );

 cmp_ok($@->code, 'eq', 'InvalidContent', 'Exception of type InvalidContent');

in this case the '$status' is '200' which to me means you are testing to see if content coming from AWS is correctly formatted XML, as you are looking for an exception after a successful response.

The fix was simple enough; just change the tests a little to reflect the new and get rid of the tests that are no longer valid;

-  throws_ok(
+  lives_ok(
     sub {
       $s->Method3(response => 'notanxmlstring', status => $status)
     },
     "Paws::Exception",
   );
-  cmp_ok($@->code, 'eq', 'InvalidContent', 'Exception of type InvalidContent');
-
   lives_ok(
     sub {
       $s->Method1(response => q'', status => $status)
@@ -276,13 +274,12 @@ foreach my $status (200) {
       $s->Method1(response => '[UNDEF]', status => $status)
     },
   );
-  throws_ok(
+  lives_ok(
     sub {
       $s->Method1(response => 'notanxmlstring', status => $status)
     },
     "Paws::Exception",
   );
-  cmp_ok($@->code, 'eq', 'InvalidContent', 'Exception of type InvalidContent');
 }

Hmm I think before I go too further it is time for another question as I am wondering why they are testing for such a condition?

Does AWS ever send back a status 200 with invalid XML?