Test2::Tools::Ref#

Tools for validating references.

DESCRIPTION#

This module contains tools that allow you to verify that something is a ref. It also has tools to check if two refs are the same exact ref, or different. None of the functions in this module do deep comparisons.

SYNOPSIS#

use Test2::Tools::Ref;

## Ensure something is a ref.
ref_ok($ref);

## Check that $ref is a HASH reference
ref_ok($ref, 'HASH', 'Must be a hash')

ref_is($refa, $refb, "Same exact reference");

ref_is_not($refa, $refb, "Not the same exact reference");

EXPORTS#

All subs are exported by default.

  • ref_ok($thing)

  • ref_ok($thing, $type)

  • ref_ok($thing, $type, $name)

    This checks that $thing is a reference. If $type is specified then it will check that $thing is that type of reference.

  • ref_is($ref1, $ref2, $name)

    Verify that two references are the exact same reference.

  • ref_is_not($ref1, $ref2, $name)

    Verify that two references are not the exact same reference.

SOURCE#

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/.

MAINTAINERS#

AUTHORS#