Catman...::Mock(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸 — a whole exporter that does absolutely nothing

okay bestie, welcome to the Catman...::Mock(3pm) page, straight out of the User Contributed Perl Documentation 💅 and yes, the name is doing a little bit of trolling on purpose:

• Catmandu::Exporter::Mock — an exporter that doesn't export anything 🙈✨

like. that's the whole job. that's the assignment. and she ate. 💀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bestie you can run her from the commandline or from Perl, dealer's choice 🎀

# From the commandline
$ catmandu convert JSON --fix myfixes to Mock < /tmp/data.json

# From Perl

use Catmandu;

# Print to STDOUT
my $exporter = Catmandu->exporter('Mock',fix => 'myfix.txt');

$exporter->add_many($arrayref);
$exporter->add_many($iterator);
$exporter->add_many(sub { });

$exporter->add($hashref);

printf "exported %d items\n" , $exporter->count;

# Get an array ref of all records exported
my $data = $exporter->as_arrayref;

notice how add_many will happily take an $arrayref, an $iterator, or a plain old sub { } 👑 she's flexible like that.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea ☕ this exporter exports nothing. like, zero. nada. it is the void. it is the "no thoughts head empty" of exporters 🦋

you use it in situations where you, for example, export data from a fix — the vibes are immaculate, the output is nonexistent.

but WAIT. here's the plot twist that makes her main character energy 👑: unlike the Null exporter, the Mock exporter keeps an internal array of all the records that got exported, and you can pull that whole array back out with the as_arrayref method. so she looks like she's doing nothing but she's secretly keeping receipts 🎀💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go say hi to her quieter sibling:

• Catmandu::Exporter::Null

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fr fr, if you came here looking for actual exported files: they're not coming. she said "no 💖" and honestly? iconic.

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okay that's the whole page bestie!! this was written by way of perl v5.40.1 and dated 2026-01-24, and the page itself is Catman...::Mock(3pm) 🫶 mwah, go forth and export nothing, you're doing amazing sweetie 💜✨