[Catalyst] Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst and POST

Toby Corkindale toby at ymogen.net
Mon May 15 15:41:54 CEST 2006


Carl Franks wrote:
> On 15/05/06, Toby Corkindale <toby at ymogen.net> wrote:
>> Ah, so once again, I am making the mistake of reading and *believing*
>> the fine documentation? :(
>>
>> tjc at arya ~ $ grep VERSION `locate Test/WWW/Mechanize/Catalyst.pm`
>> our $VERSION = "0.36";
>> tjc at arya $ perldoc Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst|egrep -i "submit|post"
>> tjc at arya $
>>
>>
>> Note large lack of anything mentioning support for things like
>> submit_form();
> 
> Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst uses Test::WWW::Mechanize, which in
> turn uses WWW:Mechanize
> Do you really expect anyone to duplicate and maintain the
> documentation from both those distributions?

T:W:M:C contains documentation for a whole bunch of T:W:M methods.

As a user, I would expect the docs to either contain everything it 
supports, *or* a comment to read T:W:M. By putting in *most* of the 
supported calls, it gives the impression that it *only* supports those 
calls.

tjc



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