#251 equals method on Node implementers.

[Erick Dovale]

I wish Htmlparser would implement the equals method on all descendants of node.
I am currently writing a JSP custom tag that will transform the html fragment wrapped by this tag depending on some business rules. I need to do something like:

Given the following html fragment:

<input type="text" name="input" value="value"/>

under certain circumstances I need to transform it to be something like:

<input type="hidden" name="input" value="value"/>value

This is all fine but how do I test that my transformations are been done right?

I though doing something like:

HtmlFragment expectedFragment = new HtmlFragment("<input type="hidden" name="input" value="value"/>value");

assertThat(expectedFragment, equalTo(transformer.transform("<input type="text" name="input" value="value"/>")));

For the implementation of HtmlFragment I am planning to use Htmlparser but the fact that none of the Node descendants implement equals makes this very much difficult as I would have to implement wrappers for each one of them in order to provide them with equals..

[Derrick Oswald]

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The unit tests currently use the toHtml() method and then do a string comparison.
Maybe this could work for you.