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lire::test::commandresult

CommandResult(3pm)					  LogReport's Lire Documentation					CommandResult(3pm)

NAME

       Lire::Test::CommandResult - Object used to report the results of shell commands

SYNOPSIS

	 use Lire::Test::FunctionalTestCase;

	 my $result = $self->lire_run( "echo Test" );
	 print $result->status();
	 print $result->stdout();
	 print $result->stderr();

	 print scalar $result->sent_mail(), " emails were sent.
";

DESCRIPTION

       Lire::Test::ComandResult objects are used to report the results of shell commands run through Lire::Test::FunctionalTestCase::lire_run().

   command()
       Returns the shell command that was run. This is the complete command line which was interpreated by the shell.

   status()
       Returns the command result status. (What is usually contained in $?).

   stdout()
       Returns what was output on stdout while executing the command.

   stderr()
       Returns what was output on stderr while executing the command.

   sent_mail()
       Returns in an array reference the message that were sent out during this command run. The element of this array are hash reference
       containing two keys:

       recipients
	   An array reference containing the recipients as passed on the command line to sendmail.

       message
	   The email which was sent. This is the complete text of the email. This is what was passed to sendmail via STDIN.

SEE ALSO

       Lire::Test::FunctionaLTestCase(3pm)

VERSION

       $Id: CommandResult.pm,v 1.6 2006/07/23 13:16:31 vanbaal Exp $

AUTHOR

       Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

       This file is part of Lire.

       Lire is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
       Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with
       http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

Lire 2.1.1							    2006-07-23							CommandResult(3pm)