RFR: 8340493: Fix some Asserts failure messages

Valerie Peng valeriep at openjdk.org
Mon Dec 16 22:31:38 UTC 2024


On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:33:39 GMT, Weijun Wang <weijun at openjdk.org> wrote:

> `Asserts.assertNotEquals` shows "expected 12345 to not equal 12345" which sounds redundant, just say "expected not equals but was 12345".
> 
> `Asserts.assertEqualsByteArray` uses the words "expected... to equal...". Modify it to follow the `assertEquals` style ""expected... but was...".

test/lib/jdk/test/lib/Asserts.java line 272:

> 270:             msg = Objects.toString(msg, "assertEqualsByteArray")
> 271:                     + ": expected " + HexFormat.of().formatHex(lhs)
> 272:                     + " but was " + HexFormat.of().formatHex(rhs);

The original message is about these two bytes being unequal, but with the new message, it seems to imply that the first argument `lhs` is the expected value and `rhs` is the actual value. I grokked a few calls of this method and it seems that this may not always be the case?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21101#discussion_r1887661314


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