[NIFI-9495] Correct Intermittent BulletinMergerTest Failures

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.15.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.16.0, 1.15.2
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Assignee: David Handermann
• Reporter: David Handermann
• Created: 16/Dec/21 19:54
• Updated: 20/Dec/21 17:43
• Resolved: 16/Dec/21 23:45

Description

Recent changes to the BulletinMergerTest introduced the potential for intermittent test failures when checking for the presence of a BulletinEntity instance containing the same message as an earlier instance.  The createBulletin method calls new Date() to set the timestamp property on test Bulletin objects, which yield different results based on execution speed. This can result in test failures when the BulletinMerger compares instances with the same message and equivalent timestamp values.

Issue Links

• is caused by: NIFI-9417 Flaky BulletinMergerTest.java
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5607