NAME
Test::Recent - check a time is recent
SYNOPSIS
use Test::More;
use Test::Recent qw(recent);
# check things happened in the last ten seconds
recent DateTime->now, "now is recent!";
recent "2012-12-23 00:00:00", "end of mayan calendar happened recently?";
# check things happened in the last hour
recent "2012-12-23 00:00:00", DateTime::Duration->new( hours => 1 ), "mayan";
recent "2012-12-23 00:00:00", "1 hour", "mayan"
DESCRIPTION
Simple module to check things happened recently.
Functions
These are exported on demand or may be called fully qualified
recent $date_and_time
recent $date_and_time, $test_description
recent $date_and_time, $duration, $test_description
Tests (using the Test::Builder framework) if the time occurred
within the duration ago from the current time. If no duration is
passed, ten seconds is assumed.
occured_within_ago $date_and_time, $duration
Returns true if and only if the time occurred within the duration
ago from the current time.
Parsing of DateTimes
This module supports the following things being passed in as a date and
time:
epoch seconds
A DateTime object
An ISO8601 formatted date string
i.e. anything that DateTime::Format::ISO8601 can parse
A Postgres style TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
i.e. something of the form "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.ssssss+TZ"
Older versions of this module used DateTimeX::Easy to parse the
datetime, but this proved to be unreliable.
Overriding the sense of "now"
Sometimes you want someone else's concept of *now*. For example, you
might want to pull back the time from the database server and compare
against that rather than your own local clock.
This can be done by setting the $Test::Recent::RelativeTo variable. For
safety's sake, this should probably be done with local:
{
local $Test::Recent::RelativeTo =
$dbh->selectcol_arrayref("SELECT NOW()")->[0];
recent($time);
}
You can set $Test::Recent::RelativeTo to anything that Test::Recent can
parse.
AUTHOR
Written by Mark Fowler <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright OmniTI 2012. All Rights Reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
BUGS
This module ignores sub-seconds. This is primarily because the current
implementation of DateTime's "now" method does not return nanoseconds,
meaning that technically "now" returns a time that is in the past and
might occur before a timestamp you hand in that contained nanoseconds
(and therefore would erroneously be not concidered "recent")
Bugs should be reported via this distribution's CPAN RT queue. This can
be found at <
https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Test-Recent>
You can also address issues by forking this distribution on github and
sending pull requests. It can be found at
<
http://github.com/2shortplanks/Test-Recent>
In order not to depend on another DateTime library, this module converts
postgres style TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE by using a regular expression
and simply ignoring microseconds. This potentially introduces a one
second inaccuracy in the recent handling.
SEE ALSO
DateTime::Format::ISO8601, Time::Duration::Parse
