[dancer-users] Plack::Test with Cookies

[Dave Cross]

Quoting Peter Mottram <peter at sysnix.com>:

> On 15/01/16 16:57, Dave Cross wrote:
>>
>> I've been writing tests for a Dancer2 app. I'm using Plack::Test. One
>> thing that I wanted to test was that logged in users get a different
>> view of the app to logged out visitors. For that I need to set cookies
>> on the requests that I'm sending to the test app.
>>
>> I found this advent calendar article by SawyerX which looked very useful.
>>
>>   http://advent.perldancer.org/2014/12
>>
>> Following the instructions in that article, I did this:
>>
>>   my $res = $test->request(POST '/login', [ \%test_user_creds ]);
>>
>>   $jar->extract_cookies($res);
>>
>> I can look at $jar->as_string before and after that line, and I seen
>> the session cookie being added to the jar.
>>
>> Later I do this:
>>
>>   my $req = GET "/$private_page";
>>   $jar->add_cookie_header($req);
>>   my $res = $test->request( $req );
>>
>> This doesn't work. And it doesn't work because the session cookies
>> don't get added to the request object. $jar is a HTTP::Cookies object,
>> so I looked at the add_cookie_header() method, to find this code at
>> the start:
>>
>>   my $self = shift;
>>   my $request = shift || return;
>>   my $url = $request->uri;
>>   my $scheme = $url->scheme;
>>   unless ($scheme =~ /^https?\z/) {
>>       return;
>>   }
>>
>> This is where my test goes wrong. My request is just "/$private_page"
>> - it doesn't have a $scheme (or, indeed, a hostname). And I guess it's
>> obvious that add_cookie_header needs a domain in order to know which
>> cookies from the jar to add (my jar only has the correct cookies - but
>> the method can't know that).
>>
>> Looking at the cookie jar, I see that the cookies have been given the
>> domain "localhost.local". Can I just add "http://localhost.local" to
>> the front of my request URL? Is that guaranteed to work in all test
>> environments?
>>
>> Am I missing something here or did that code in the advent calendar
>> article never work?
>>
>> Any advice much appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> I'm not sure how the code from the advent calendar worked. I always
> prefix the url with 'http://localhost' though perhaps 'http://127.0.0.1'
> would be a better option in case resolving localhost is somehow broken.
> See current pod:
>
> https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Dancer2/lib/Dancer2/Manual/Testing.pod#Cookies

Yep. That fixes the problem. Thanks.

Probably worth patching the advent calendar article so no-one else  
gets dragged down that dead-end like I did. I'll look at that next week.

Cheers,

Dave...