4.35. harness

Test harness block. Similar to try/catch. Interprets the body text and checks the return value against expected and explicitly bad cases.

Returns DIED, OK, or NOT OK message along with your result if not the expected value.

4.35.1. Summary

    [harness other_named_attributes]

Parameters	Description	Default
expected	Tagname for delimiting your expected return value (default "OK")	DEFAULT_VALUE
name	This will appear in your output message (useful for distinguishing harness tags from one another) (default "testnnn")	DEFAULT_VALUE

Attributes	Default
interpolate	No
reparse	Yes

Other_Characteristics
Invalidates cache	no
Container tag	Yes
Has Subtags	No
Nests	No

Tag expansion example:

    [harness]
---
    TODO: (tag result)

ASP-like Perl call:

   $Tag->harness(  {
}, $body  );

or similarly with positional parameters,

    $Tag->harness(, $attribute_hash_reference, $body);

4.35.2. Description

Test harness block. Similar to try/catch. Interprets the body text and checks the return value against expected and explicitly bad cases.

Returns DIED, OK, or NOT OK message along with the harness name and your result if not the expected value.

4.35.2.1. expected

Tagname for delimiting your expected return value (default "OK")

4.35.2.2. name

This will appear in your output message (useful for distinguishing harness tags from one another) (default "testnnn")