[TestBox 2.2] Deep Comparisons

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Is there an expectation/assertion for deep comparisons?

2

Can you give an example? Checking for equality on arrays, structs, etc should already compare all the keys/indexes.

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
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3

Sure. I have this:

beforeEach( function( currentSpec ){
user = new xmdroot.model.beans.user();
});

it( " get/has UserSig should return properly ", function(){
sig1 = new xmdroot.model.beans.usersignature();
sig2 = new xmdroot.model.beans.usersignature();
sig1.setId(1);
sig2.setId(2);

user.addUserSignature( sig1 );
expect( user.hasUserSignature() ).toBe( true );
expect( user.getUserSignature() ).toBe( sig1 );
user.addUserSignature( sig2 );
expect( user.hasUserSignature() ).toBe( true );
expect( user.getUserSignature() ).toBe( sig2 );
});

I’m seeing equality here:

expect( user.getUserSignature() ).toBe( sig2 );
And when I dump user.getUserSignature(), it matches sig1 (the internal ID).

I worked around it by just doing:

expect( user.getUserSignature().getId() ).toBe( sig2.getId() );

but I was curious.

4

Ahh, so you’re trying to compare two CFC instances? Those would fall under the struct comparison in the assertion library which just does a compare of the public properties (UDFs). Since everyone could define a different method for comparing two CFC instances from a data perspective, I’m not sure how we’d handle that.

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
ColdBox Platform: http://www.coldbox.org
Blog: http://www.codersrevolution.com

5

Ahh, so you’re trying to compare two CFC instances? Those would fall under the struct comparison in the assertion library which just does a compare of the public properties (UDFs).

Yep, that explains it. I’ll just continue checking appropriate getter return values!

Since everyone could define a different method for comparing two CFC instances from a data perspective, I’m not sure how we’d handle that.

Dunno what you mean about making a different method for comparison?