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Test2::Formatter(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  Test2::Formatter(3)

NAME
       Test2::Formatter - Namespace for formatters.
DESCRIPTION
       This is the namespace for formatters. This is an empty package.
CREATING FORMATTERS
       A formatter is any package or object with a "write($event, $num)"
       method.
           package Test2::Formatter::Foo;
           use strict;
           use warnings;
           sub write {
               my $self_or_class = shift;
               my ($event, $assert_num) = @_;
               ...
           }
           sub hide_buffered { 1 }
           sub terminate { }
           sub finalize { }
           sub supports_tables { return $BOOL }
           sub new_root {
               my $class = shift;
               ...
               $class->new(@_);
           }
           1;
       The "write" method is a method, so it either gets a class or instance.
       The two arguments are the $event object it should record, and the
       $assert_num which is the number of the current assertion (ok), or the
       last assertion if this event is not itself an assertion. The assertion
       number may be any integer 0 or greater, and may be undefined in some
       cases.
       The "hide_buffered()" method must return a boolean. This is used to
       tell buffered subtests whether or not to send it events as they are
       being buffered.  See "run_subtest(...)" in Test2::API for more
       information.
       The "terminate" and "finalize" methods are optional methods called that
       you can implement if the format you're generating needs to handle these
       cases, for example if you are generating XML and need close open tags.
       The "terminate" method is called when an event's "terminate" method
       returns true, for example when a Test2::Event::Plan has a 'skip_all'
       plan, or when a Test2::Event::Bail event is sent. The "terminate"
       method is passed a single argument, the Test2::Event object which
       triggered the terminate.
       The "finalize" method is always the last thing called on the formatter,
       except when "terminate" is called for a Bail event. It is passed the
       following arguments:
       The "supports_tables" method should be true if the formatter supports
       directly rendering table data from the "info" facets. This is a newer
       feature and many older formatters may not support it. When not
       supported the formatter falls back to rendering "detail" instead of the
       "table" data.
       The "new_root" method is used when constructing a root formatter. The
       default is to just delegate to the regular "new()" method, most
       formatters can ignore this.
       o   The number of tests that were planned
       o   The number of tests actually seen
       o   The number of tests which failed
       o   A boolean indicating whether or not the test suite passed
       o   A boolean indicating whether or not this call is for a subtest
       The "new_root" method is called when "Test2::API::Stack" Initializes
       the root hub for the first time. Most formatters will simply have this
       call "$class->new", which is the default behavior. Some formatters
       however may want to take extra action during construction of the root
       formatter, this is where they can do that.
SOURCE
       The source code repository for Test2 can be found at
       http://github.com/Test-More/test-more/.
MAINTAINERS
       Chad Granum <exodist AT cpan.org>
AUTHORS
       Chad Granum <exodist AT cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2019 Chad Granum <exodist AT cpan.org>.
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.
       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

perl v5.16.3                      2019-09-06               Test2::Formatter(3)