junit.framework
Class ComparisonFailure

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Throwable
      java.lang.Error
          junit.framework.AssertionFailedError
              junit.framework.ComparisonFailure

public class ComparisonFailure
extends AssertionFailedError

Thrown when an assert equals for Strings failed. Inspired by a patch from Alex Chaffee mailto:alex@purpletech.com

Constructor Summary

ComparisonFailure(String message, String expected, String actual)
Constructs a comparison failure.

Method Summary

String

getMessage() Returns "..." in place of common prefix and "..." in place of common suffix between expected and actual.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Throwable

printStackTrace, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ComparisonFailure

public ComparisonFailure(String message,
                         String expected,
                         String actual)

Constructs a comparison failure.

Parameters:

message - the identifying message or null

expected - the expected string value

actual - the actual string value

Method Detail

getMessage

public String getMessage()

Returns "..." in place of common prefix and "..." in place of common suffix between expected and actual.

Overrides:

getMessage in class Throwable

Returns:

the error message string of this Throwable object if it was created with an error message string; or null if it was created with no error message.

See Also:

Throwable.getMessage()