#!./perl -w # # Copyright 2005, Adam Kennedy. # # You may redistribute only under the same terms as Perl 5, as specified # in the README file that comes with the distribution. # # Tests freezing/thawing structures containing Singleton objects, # which should see both structs pointing to the same object. sub BEGIN { unshift @INC, 't'; unshift @INC, 't/compat' if $] < 5.006002; require Config; import Config; if ($ENV{PERL_CORE} and $Config{'extensions'} !~ /\bStorable\b/) { print "1..0 # Skip: Storable was not built\n"; exit 0; } } use Test::More tests => 16; use Storable (); # Get the singleton my $object = My::Singleton->new; isa_ok( $object, 'My::Singleton' ); # Confirm (for the record) that the class is actually a Singleton my $object2 = My::Singleton->new; isa_ok( $object2, 'My::Singleton' ); is( "$object", "$object2", 'Class is a singleton' ); ############ # Main Tests my $struct = [ 1, $object, 3 ]; # Freeze the struct my $frozen = Storable::freeze( $struct ); ok( (defined($frozen) and ! ref($frozen) and length($frozen)), 'freeze returns a string' ); # Thaw the struct my $thawed = Storable::thaw( $frozen ); # Now it should look exactly like the original is_deeply( $struct, $thawed, 'Struct superficially looks like the original' ); # ... EXCEPT that the Singleton should be the same instance of the object is( "$struct->[1]", "$thawed->[1]", 'Singleton thaws correctly' ); # We can also test this empirically $struct->[1]->{value} = 'Goodbye cruel world!'; is_deeply( $struct, $thawed, 'Empiric testing confirms correct behaviour' ); $struct = [ $object, $object ]; $frozen = Storable::freeze($struct); $thawed = Storable::thaw($frozen); is("$thawed->[0]", "$thawed->[1]", "Multiple Singletons thaw correctly"); # End Tests ########### package My::Singleton; my $SINGLETON = undef; sub new { $SINGLETON or $SINGLETON = bless { value => 'Hello World!' }, $_[0]; } sub STORABLE_freeze { my $self = shift; # We don't actually need to return anything, but provide a null string # to avoid the null-list-return behaviour. return ('foo'); } sub STORABLE_attach { my ($class, $clone, $string) = @_; Test::More::ok( ! ref $class, 'STORABLE_attach passed class, and not an object' ); Test::More::is( $class, 'My::Singleton', 'STORABLE_attach is passed the correct class name' ); Test::More::is( $clone, 0, 'We are not in a dclone' ); Test::More::is( $string, 'foo', 'STORABLE_attach gets the string back' ); # Get the Singleton object and return it return $class->new; }