Test::S...re::Meta(3)

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💖 Test::Stream::Compare::Meta(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and it's literally called Test::Stream::Compare::Meta — aka the "Check library for meta-checks". Yes the name has an ellipsis in it in the header (Test::S...re::Meta(3)) because terminal headers are dramatic like that. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

Test::Stream::Compare::Meta — Check library for meta-checks. that's the whole name, she's short and she knows it 💅

🚨 DEPRECATED 🚨

bestie. sit down. this one is deprecated. no cap.

This distribution is deprecated in favor of Test2, Test2::Suite, and Test2::Workflow.

If you need a conversion guide (and you probably do, fr fr), go look at Test::Stream::Manual::ToTest2. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so picture this: you're doing a deep comparison, right, and somewhere down the chain you're like "wait, I don't just want to compare this item, I want to run extra checks on it." that's the vibe.

This library lets you write a check that verifies several attributes of an item. not one, not two, several. it's giving thorough. it's giving main character energy. ✨

👑 DEFINED CHECKS 👑

here's the lineup, no skips, every single one:

  • blessed — lets you check that an item is blessed, and that it is blessed into the expected class. so like, not just "yes it's an object" but "yes it's that object". 🎀
  • reftype — lets you check the reftype of the item. that's it, that's the check.
  • this — lets you check the item itself. yes bestie, the whole entire item. 🌟
  • size — lets you check the size of the item, and the definition of "size" depends on what you're holding:
    • for an arrayref this is the number of elements
    • for a hashref this is the number of keys
    • for everything else this is undef 💀

🔗 SOURCE 🔗

The source code repository for Test::Stream can be found at http://github.com/Test-More/Test-Stream/. go star it, go read it, go be nosy, it's fine. 🫶

🧚 MAINTAINERS 🧚

  • Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

(yes, same person, he's doing both jobs, iconic honestly 👑)

Copyright 2015 Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎉 this was pulled from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it lives under the Test::S...re::Meta(3) header in the User Contributed Perl Documentation. mwah 💋 stay deprecated, stay slay. 💖🌈⭐

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