new

In addition to the options that TAP::Harness allow to this method, we also allow the following:

archive

This is the name of the archive file to generate. We use Archive::Tar in the background so we only support ".tar" and ".tar.gz" archive file formats. This can optionally be an existing directory that will have the TAP archive's contents deposited therein without any file archiving (no Archive::Tar involved).

extra_files

This is an array reference to extra files that you want to include in the TAP archive but which are not TAP files themselves. This is useful if you want to include some log files that contain useful information about the test run.

extra_properties

This is a hash reference of extra properties that you've collected during your test run. Some things you might want to include are the Perl version, the system's architecture, the operating system, etc.

runtests

Takes the same arguments as TAP::Harness's version and returns the same thing (a TAP::Parser::Aggregator object). The only difference is that in addition to the normal test running and progress output we also create the TAP Archive when it's all done.

aggregator_from_archive

This class method will return a TAP::Parser::Aggregator object when given a TAP Archive to open and parse. It's pretty much the reverse of creating a TAP Archive from using "new" and "runtests".

It takes a hash of arguments which are as follows:

archive

The path to the archive file. This can also be a directory if you created the archive as a directory. This is required.

parser_callbacks

This is a hash ref containing callbacks for the TAP::Parser objects that are created while parsing the TAP files. See the TAP::Parser documentation for details about these callbacks.

made_parser_callback

This callback is executed every time a new TAP::Parser object is created. It will be passed the new parser object, the name of the file to be parsed, and also the full (temporary) path of that file.

meta_yaml_callback

This is a subroutine that will be called if we find and parse a YAML file containing meta information about the test run in the archive. The structure of the YAML file will be passed in as an argument.

    my $aggregator = TAP::Harness::Archive->aggregator_from_archive(
        {
            archive          => 'my_tests.tar.gz',
            parser_callbacks => {
                plan    => sub { warn "Nice to see you plan ahead..." },
                unknown => sub { warn "Your TAP is bad!" },
            },
            made_parser_callback => sub {
                my ($parser, $file, $full_path) = @_;
                warn "$file is temporarily located at $full_path\n";
            }
            
        }
    );