Test POST requests in Dancer

Testing a POST request is as simple as testing a GET request.

In the test if the index page we need to expect the method="POST".

In the echo subtest we use the POST keyword to tell the client to send in a POST-request and we pass in the content of the body as an anonymous hash.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More;
use Plack::Test;
use Plack::Util;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $app = Plack::Util::load_psgi './app.psgi';

my $test = Plack::Test->create($app);

subtest main => sub {
    my $res = $test->request(GET '/');

    is $res->status_line, '200 OK', 'Status';
    like $res->content, qr{<form action="/echo" method="POST">}, 'Content';
};

subtest echo => sub {
    my $res = $test->request(POST '/echo', { message => 'Foo Bar' });

    is $res->status_line, '200 OK', 'Status';
    is $res->content, 'You typed in Foo Bar', 'Content';
};


done_testing();

• Run as prove test.t