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  1. Groovy
  2. GROOVY-7569

PowerAsserts should print results more verbosely and safer

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 2.5.0-beta-2
    • None

    Description

      The output of buffer evaluation results in PowerAsserts hides a lot of useful information from the user.

      This is similar to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7568, but independent.

      Discussed here:
      http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Should-PowerAsserts-be-more-verbose-td5727255.html
      https://groups.google.com/d/msg/spockframework/XbR-McgaAss/-wtkD1X1BAAJ

      In particular Strings are printed without surrounding quotes, collections are printed without telling whether they are Lists, Maps, Sets, or Ranges. Ranges are printed fully as lists (which can be unnecessarily long).

      An implementation is almost done at https://github.com/tkruse/incubator-groovy/tree/pretty

      The downside or more information is that this output could be regarded as "too noisy".

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          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. GROOVY-4520 Groovy power assert is confusing if no types are displayed

          • Major - Major loss of function.
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          Web Link GitHub Pull Request #374

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              paulk Paul King
              tkruse Thibault Kruse
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