On 23/11/2011 20:04, Brandon Passanisi wrote:
I'm currently looking at a bug report:
http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=5066854 which describes an
issue where a simple program was run with the option -esa to enable
system assertions. The bug author describes that, in the provided
sample code, an AssertionError occurs when the spec says a
MissingFormatArgumentException should be thrown. When running the
sample program without the -esa option, a
MissingFormatArgumentException is thrown. It seems to me that it
shouldn't be unexpected to see an AssertionError when -esa is used,
instead of the MissingFormatArgumentException. In fact, this behavior
appears to not be limited to this particular test case, and can
possibly occur with other APIs if an AssertionError is seen before an
expected exception. I was hoping to see some sort of explanation in
the evaluation or comments section of the bug report, but the bug
report was only updated with references about how the bug was filed
too late for a release. Can someone clarify if this behavior with
-esa is actually a bug?
Thanks.
The AssertionError just means it's tripping up on an assert in the code.
Looks like it still happens too.
-Alan.
