On Dec 28, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Peter Karman wrote:

> James Russo wrote on 12/28/10 6:47 PM:
>> Hello, 
>> 
>>      Does anyone there some examples of unit tests for a controller which is 
>> based on Catalyst::Controller::REST? There was some discussion on the list a 
>> few years ago, and I think the conclusion was to use LWP directly and not 
>> Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst. It seems that using the methods do not give 
>> you access to passing actual body content and content-type headers? There 
>> are getting overridden somewhere along the line. I'm going to continue to 
>> research it, but figured I'd ask here before I spend too much time on it. 
>> 
> 
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/KARMAN/CatalystX-CRUD-0.51/t/03-rest.t

Perfect. Thanks! As Matt just pointed out on IRC, perhaps wanting to use Mech 
for unit testing a REST controller is a bit misguided.  Catalyst::Test should 
be fine.

-jr


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