Re: [Xmlunit-general] Patching XMLUnit

[Stefan B. <bo...@ap...>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Brian Murray <bri...@us...> wrote:

> The following (portions of) WSDL files are valid and equivalent,
> however assertXMLEqual does not seem to allow for unordered lists of
> elements.

It does, it just needs to know which elements to match against each
other, see:
<http://xmlunit.sourceforge.net/userguide/html/ar01s03.html#ElementQualifier>.


> (i.e.  assertXMLEqual on "<test><foo>abc</foo><foo>123</foo></test>"
> and "<test><foo>123</foo><foo>abc</foo></test>" would result in an
> AssetionFailedError.)

Not if you used an ElementNameAndTextQualifier.

> WSDL File 1:
> 
> <wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
> xmlns:ns0="http://tempuri.org" targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org">
> 
>     <wsdl:message name="retUIntRequest">
>         <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retUInt"/>
>     </wsdl:message>
> 
>     <wsdl:message name="retByteArrayRequest">
>         <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retByteArray"/>
>     </wsdl:message>
> 
> </wsdl:definitions>
> 
> WSDL File 2:
> 
> <wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
> xmlns:ns0="http://tempuri.org" targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org">
> 
>     <wsdl:message name="retByteArrayRequest">
>         <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retByteArray"/>
>     </wsdl:message>
> 
>     <wsdl:message name="retUIntRequest">
>         <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="ns0:retUInt"/>
>     </wsdl:message>
> 
> </wsdl:definitions>

Should probably pass with an ElementNameAndAttributeQualifier.

> Would it be acceptable to patch XMLUnit to allow these two
> comparisons (the strings and WSDL files) to pass?

I think it already supports what you need.

> Is that work already underway?  If I create the patch, how can I
> submit it??

Either send it here or open a feature request/bug report and attach it
there.

Cheers

        Stefan