[LANG-751] Include the actual type in the Validate.isInstance and isAssignableFrom exception messages.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.1
• Component/s: lang.*

Environment

Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 12:31:09-0500)
Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.0.3\bin\..
Java version: 1.6.0_24, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"

• Assignee: Gary D. Gregory
• Reporter: Gary D. Gregory
• Created: 07/Sep/11 19:24
• Updated: 09/Nov/11 04:16
• Resolved: 08/Sep/11 13:41

Description

The message for the exception thrown by Validate.isInstance and isAssignableFrom do not mention the actual type, only the expected type.

trunk: "The validated object is not an instance of %s"

Proposal:

• isAssignableFrom: "Cannot assign a java.lang.String to a java.util.List"
• isInstance: "Expected type: java.util.List, actual: java.lang.String"