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How to catch AssertPathsEqual and print error to console?

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You can catch the AssertionError to get the detailed error message to the console.

You can try something like this :

       try{
           // say you are comparing FileReader objects that
           // refer to XML documents
           assertXMLEqual(filereader1, filereader2); 
        } catch (final SAXException e) {
           // show faiulre message
        } catch (final IOException e) {
           // show failure message
        } catch (final AssertionError e) {
            System.err.println(e.toString());
        }

But I think rather than catching AssertionError it is better to get more details about
assertion failure by making use of the class "Diff" (from org.custommonkey.xmlunit).
You can use this class to check if XML documents being compared are similar
(or identical) and to get more details about the difference. You can also use
the DetailedDiff class to get a detailed diff.

Check Example4 and Example5 from the XMLUnit documentation. These examples show the usage of Diff and DetailedDiff.

sateesh 2009-12-07 18:29:47

Thanks for the reference to examples. What I need here though is a method of getting Diff properties. When there is a diff I want to know where in the file the diff was detected and what kind of difference it was. With those examples, all I would be able to do is parse the ugly diff output string in order to get those property values. Is there no other way?

djangofan 2009-12-07 19:08:41

As I understand what you want is a way to get the context of the diff to detect where the XML files differ. I tried a bit in that direction, but couldn't find a way. One approach would be to get the XML nodes which differ by using the method "getAllDifferences" in the DetailedDiff class and then doing a comparison of them.Say:Diff d = new Diff(file1, file2); DetailedDiff nd = new DetailedDiff(d); for(Object o:nd.getAllDifferences()) { Difference f = (Difference) o; Node c = f.getControlNodeDetail().getNode(); Node t = f.getTestNodeDetail().getNode(); ..

sateesh 2009-12-08 08:17:48

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