In my case, I started out with launching my server with plackup, but then I wanted a custom configuration and a fresh database, and I wanted to override how some functions return errors etc., and all of that becomes more cumbersome, together with the uncertainity whether I'm really connecting to the fresh instance and not a left-over instance from a previously interrupted test run.
But for a very simple start, this is an old version of the end-to-end test run setup I had:
package helper;
use strict;
use File::Path;
use File::Temp 'tempdir';
use WWW::Mechanize::Chrome;
sub spawn_app {
my( $port ) = @_;
my $h = helper::Child->new;
$h->spawn_child( 'plackup', '-a', 'bin/app.pl', '-p', $port );
$h
}
my @cleanup_directories;
END {
File::Path::rmtree($_, 0) for @cleanup_directories;
}
sub spawn_chrome {
my $tempdir = tempdir();
push @cleanup_directories, $tempdir;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Chrome->new(
launch_exe => '...',
data_directory => $tempdir,
@_
);
}
package helper::Child;
use strict;
sub new {
my( $class, %options ) = @_;
bless \%options => $class;
}
sub DESTROY {
kill 'KILL', $_[0]->{pid};
wait;
}
sub spawn_child_win32 { my ( $self, @cmd ) = @_;
system(1, @cmd)
}
sub spawn_child_posix { my ( $self, @cmd ) = @_;
require POSIX;
POSIX->import("setsid");
# daemonize
defined(my $pid = fork()) || die "can't fork: $!";
if( $pid ) { # non-zero now means I am the parent
$self->log('debug', "Spawned child as $pid");
return $pid;
};
#chdir("/") || die "can't chdir to /: $!";
# We are the child, close about everything, then exec
(setsid() != -1) || die "Can't start a new session: $!"
+;
open(STDERR, ">&STDOUT") || die "can't dup stdout: $!";
open(STDIN, "< /dev/null") || die "can't read /dev/null: $!";
open(STDOUT, "> /dev/null") || die "can't write to /dev/null: $!";
exec @cmd;
}
sub spawn_child { my ( $self, @cmd ) = @_;
my ($pid);
if( $^O =~ /mswin/i ) {
$pid = $self->spawn_child_win32(@cmd)
} else {
$pid = $self->spawn_child_posix(@cmd)
};
$self->{pid} = $pid;
return $pid
}
1;
Used as:
use lib './t';
use helper;
my $port = 5099;
my $server = helper::spawn_app( $port );
my $mech = helper::spawn_chrome(
);
...