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Lucian Enache
Lucian Enache

Reputation: 2520

Matcher assert on two objects

I have an integration test that checks the content type of a response as follows

Header header = new BasicHeader("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream; charset=UTF-8");

assertThat(response.getEntity().getContentType(), Matchers.is(header));

The test fails asserting that the response is same like the pre-built header with this odd message

Expected: is <Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=UTF-8>
    but: was <Content-Type: application/octet-stream; charset=UTF-8>

My hunch is that since we are speaking of two objects, we are speaking of two different instances. for this I have also tried 

assertThat(response.getEntity().getContentType(), Matchers.equalTo(header));

But the results were the same.

Any idea of what I'm doing wrong ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 569

Answers (2)

Emanuele Ivaldi
Emanuele Ivaldi

Reputation: 1332

Given the equals method is failing on you, an alternative would be to use the reflection equality ignoring the fields that are causing the problem with the equals method

org.mockito.Matchers.refEq(object,[list of fields to ignore])

Upvotes: 1

piotrek
piotrek

Reputation: 14520

it means that toString of those two objects give the same results but those objects are different in terms of equals method. maybe they have even different classes

Upvotes: 1

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