Consider creating a sister module that defines a "Recorder" role for Mojo::Test

[dmanto]

As for conversations at mojo IRC chat (Mar 22, 2021, starting at 10:35 AM GMT), Mojolicious developer (kraih) suggessted he was thinking on about writing a Mojo::UserAgent::Server module that runs the tests against the live service the first time and caches the responses in a t/fixtures/... dir

Further in the convesation mst mentioned this module (Mojo::UserAgent::Mockable), as a possible implementation.

Kraih's sugestion is that it should be a role, use could be like:

my $ua = Mojo::UserAgent->new->with_roles('+Recorder');
$ua->record_to('t/fixtures/cache');
my $maybe_cached_json = $ua->get('https://fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/module/_search?q=mojolicious')->result->json;

I asked at mojo chat if the proxy helpers (->proxy->get_p and post_p) could be also cached by the role. Use cases would to be able to test offline some proxied API (for instance a map API like mapbox, that is easily proxied in mojo through those helpers). kraih said he can contribute the proxy helpers as a contribution example.

Finally, and as an example of a mojo developer user's experience, one should be able to write a test that runs online with a caching flag, like

MOJO_UA_RECORDING_START=1 prove -l t/...

and then after that the test will be able to be run offline, (obviously w/o the env var set).

[shadowcat-mst]

Also your code basically already has the recorder stuff for the useragent, it just needs switchting to a Role::Tiny, and sri sez:

< kraih> then you could still use the role, nothing prevents you from making less efficient proxy helpers for testing that do use the recorder
< kraih> it's trivial if the recorder role exists, heck, if someone makes the role i'll contribute the proxy helpers as a documentation example :P

So, uh, any chance of refactoring your already working stuff into that role? :D

[PopeFelix]

A chance? There's always a chance. lol. But I'm busy enough with @DayJob, and it's getting nice enough outside, that I don't have a lot of desire to do that. Still, you guys have helped me out a lot over the years and I feel like I oughtta. And it can't be *that* hard; I've written Role::Tiny roles before. Let me think about it some. And if some bright soul wants to take a stab at it before I get to it, I'm happy to consult.

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:24 PM shadowcat-mst ***@***.***> wrote: Also your code basically already has the recorder stuff for the useragent, it just needs switchting to a Role::Tiny, and sri sez: < kraih> then you could still use the role, nothing prevents you from making less efficient proxy helpers for testing that do use the recorder < kraih> it's trivial if the recorder role exists, heck, if someone makes the role i'll contribute the proxy helpers as a documentation example :P So, uh, any chance of refactoring your already working stuff into that role? :D — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#30 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABGUGGQWFM24PRLKLMZK7LTE6YRHANCNFSM4ZT44ZDA> .

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[shadowcat-mst]

Totally, dude, just if you can find time to do a bit of refactoring of what you already have, the author of Mojo is up for taking it from there ... and I'm interested enough to kick around and help out

[kiwiroy]

Here is a stab at it master...kiwiroy:recorder-role

[PopeFelix]

@kiwiroy That looks decent. Make it a PR? I'll want @shadowcat-mst to give it a once over as well.