Catman...r::Mock(3pm)

💖 Catman...r::Mock(3pm) — the Perl manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Catmandu::Validator::Mock page 💅 this is a Perl module from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it is literally the validator that doesn't even look at your data. yes, fr fr. it's giving fake-it-till-you-make-it, and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Catmandu::Validator::Mock — validate items based on a flag 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Catmandu::Validator::Mock;

my $validator = Catmandu::Validator::Mock->new(
    message  => 'item is invalid',
    reject   => 1,
);

look at that little constructor go 🦋 new takes a hash of stuff, you hand it a message and you flip reject on, and boom — you have yourself a validator that is not actually validating anything. main character energy tbh.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea ☕ this Catmandu::Validator exists for testing. it does not actually look at the data to validate — like, it doesn't even peek, it doesn't even glance, no vibe check whatsoever 🙈

instead, it rejects items if reject is set to a true value. that's it. that's the whole personality. and honestly, we respect the commitment 💀

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🧚 CONFIGURATION 🧚

• message — the error message it hands back for rejected items 💌 like, the little note it leaves when it says no.
• reject — the validator marks all items as invalid as long as this flag is true 👑 default is false. so if you don't set it, everybody passes. set it, and everybody's getting rejected. no in-between, no nuance, she's a binary queen ✨

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

go check out Catmandu::Validator for the inherited methods, the common configuration options, and general usage 🦋 that's where the family lives, iykyk.

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💀 heads up bestie: this thing does not look at your data. at all. so don't ship it to prod thinking it's gonna catch anything — it's a testing toy, periodt.

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perl v5.40.1 · 2026-01-24 — that's the version and date this page was served up, mwah, love that for us 🌈💖 bye bestie, go write some tests! 🎀✨