On a project at $work I was counting heavily on Net::SFTP to upload to, download from or check files on servers. Unfortunately I got weird results here and there. I figured if I could only have a testing framework for Net::SFTP, I could use it instead of doing hackery around it. I could also write a testing suite based on it. Testing suites are one of the best tools available to a sysadmin.
Anyway, without further ado, I present you Test::SFTP 0.01!
Test::SFTP provides the following methods:
- connect (internally-used method)
- can_connect
- cannot_connect
- is_status
- is_status_number
- is_status_string
- can_get
- cannot_get
- can_put
- cannot_put
- can_ls
- cannot_ls
Also, it has the following attributes:
- Net::SFTP attributes:
- host
- user
- password
- debug
- warn
- ssh_args
- object
- connected
- auto_connect
A few highlights:
- Allows direct object access through $t_sftp->object
- Uses Moose!
- Automatic connect when using methods that require connectivity
- Allows pretty much all major Net::SFTP methods
- Complete testing suite (unlike Net::SFTP *cough*) for all functions, bearing you set TEST_SFTP_RUN_TEST=1
Some more stuff I want to add:
- Allow not to connect automatically - forget to write it in the first version
- Support every Net::SFTP methods
- Timeout option for connection
- Support the remote path in can_get, cannot_get
- Write an SSH server or something, to control the testing
Things will have to wait a bit with this, because I've gotten the crucial part I needed from it. I'll definitely keep it updated, but probably will take more than a few days to be updated with more stuff. :)
Enjoy.
