- NAME
- VERSION
- DESCRIPTION
- SYNOPSIS
- METHODS
  - Class Methods
    - new
    - prepare
    - open_test
    - summary

# NAME

TAP::Formatter::Base - Base class for harness output delegates

# VERSION

Version 3.36

# DESCRIPTION

This provides console orientated output formatting for TAP::Harness.

# SYNOPSIS

     use TAP::Formatter::Console;
     my $harness = TAP::Formatter::Console->new( \%args );

# METHODS

## Class Methods

### `new`

     my %args = (
        verbose => 1,
     )
     my $harness = TAP::Formatter::Console->new( \%args );

The constructor returns a new `TAP::Formatter::Console` object. If a TAP::Harness is created with no `formatter` a `TAP::Formatter::Console` is automatically created. If any of the following options were given to TAP::Harness->new they well be passed to this constructor which accepts an optional hashref whose allowed keys are:

- `verbosity`

  Set the verbosity level.

- `verbose`

  Printing individual test results to STDOUT.

- `timer`

  Append run time for each test to output. Uses Time::HiRes if available.

- `failures`

  Show test failures (this is a no-op if `verbose` is selected).

- `comments`

  Show test comments (this is a no-op if `verbose` is selected).

- `quiet`

  Suppressing some test output (mostly failures while tests are running).

- `really_quiet`

  Suppressing everything but the tests summary.

- `silent`

  Suppressing all output.

- `errors`

  If parse errors are found in the TAP output, a note of this will be made in the summary report. To see all of the parse errors, set this argument to true:

        errors => 1

- `directives`

  If set to a true value, only test results with directives will be displayed. This overrides other settings such as `verbose`, `failures`, or `comments`.

- `stdout`

  A filehandle for catching standard output.

- `color`

  If defined specifies whether color output is desired. If `color` is not defined it will default to color output if color support is available on the current platform and output is not being redirected.

- `jobs`

  The number of concurrent jobs this formatter will handle.

- `show_count`

  Boolean value. If false, disables the `X/Y` test count which shows up while tests are running.

Any keys for which the value is `undef` will be ignored.

### `prepare`

Called by Test::Harness before any test output is generated.

This is an advisory and may not be called in the case where tests are being supplied to Test::Harness by an iterator.

### `open_test`

Called to create a new test session. A test session looks like this:

        my $session = $formatter->open_test( $test, $parser );
        while ( defined( my $result = $parser->next ) ) {
            $session->result($result);
            exit 1 if $result->is_bailout;
        }
        $session->close_test;

### `summary`

      $harness->summary( $aggregate );

`summary` prints the summary report after all tests are run. The first argument is an aggregate to summarise. An optional second argument may be set to a true value to indicate that the summary is being output as a result of an interrupted test run.