Mocking time: the session module

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• Test::MockTime
• Testing sessions by mocking time

examples/mock-time/MySession.pm

package MySession;
use strict;
use warnings;

my %SESSION;
my $TIMEOUT = 60;

sub new {
    return bless {}, shift;
}

sub login {
    my ($self, $username, $pw) = @_;
    # ...
    $SESSION{$username} = time;
    return;
}

sub logged_in {
    my ($self, $username) = @_;
    if ($SESSION{$username} and time - $SESSION{$username} < $TIMEOUT) {
        return 1;
    }
    return 0;
}

1;