Re: [Junit-devel] reintroduction of assertion variants for primitive types?

[Yanic I. <yan...@te...>]

Hi David,

I don't know of any relevant @SuppressWarnings annotations, but Eclipse 
has a compiler option (under 'Error/Warnings', 'J2SE 5.0 options') 
called 'Boxing and  unboxing conversions' that can be set to Ignore, 
Warning or Error. Mine is set to Error.

Best regards,
Yanic





David Saff wrote:
> Yanic,
>
> It's a point well-taken.  We'll discuss it for 4.2.  In the meantime, 
> do any compilers support @SuppressWarnings("autobox") or something 
> like that?  If so, you could create your own Assert class with the 
> desired methods.
>
>    David Saff
>
> Yanic Inghelbrecht wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> re: org.junit.Assert.java      (rev 1.1.2.7, "Version4" branch, 
>> "NewYears2006" tag)
>>
>> In this commit (by kbeck) the decision was made to remove all 
>> 'superfluous' assertEquals variants for primitive types from 
>> org.junit.Assert and rely on auto-boxing and the Object-based variant 
>> instead.
>>
>> Have you taken into consideration that some programmers are not that 
>> keen (yet?) on auto-boxing and have their compiler set to report 
>> warnings/errors when auto-boxing is detected?
>>
>> To circumvent such warnings/errors in their testcode, these 
>> programmers have to forsake assertEquals and use assertTrue (which is 
>> not as legible, neither in testcode nor in testrunner output). IMHO 
>> the framework shouldn't force the use of auto-boxing on its users. 
>> Auto-boxing can easily be avoided by providing variants for each 
>> primitive type (as it was before), at no cost and without breaking 
>> existing code.
>>
>> Any chance on a reintroduction of these assertEquals (and related) 
>> variants for primitive types?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Yanic
>>
>>
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