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Re^2: Testing failures: How to override print to make it fail?

by adrianh (Chancellor)
on May 05, 2005 at 13:34 UTC ( [id://454357]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Testing failures: How to override print to make it fail?
in thread Testing failures: How to override print to make it fail?

What scenario are you envisioning that a print failing will be the sole indicator of a failure state?

You can have a print fail due to, for example, lack of space on the device and then have the close succeed later on.

There's also the argument that it's better to FailFast.

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Re^3: Testing failures: How to override print to make it fail?
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 05, 2005 at 13:36 UTC
    If you're printing to a filehandle, then use a IO::File-derived class that will encapsulate that die for you, and test that. I'm not quite sure how STDOUT or STDERR runs out of space, though.

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      I'm not quite sure how STDOUT or STDERR runs out of space
      $ script.pl orig.txt 2> /var/log/errors.log > new.txt && rm new.txt

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