Nice. FWIW I have a related tool that tries to help find where a regexp mismatch has happened. It parses the output of gocheck, so it's probably not that useful to non-acme users but you might want to consider including the approach (http://paste.ubuntu.com/15195795/) for fancycheck.Matches and ErrorMatches, perhaps, to highlight where the mismatch starts.
On 25 February 2016 at 06:26, Andrew Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > > Occasionally I'll change a test, and some string equality test will fail > with a wall of text. Sometimes we shouldn't be checking the whole string, > but sometimes it's legitimate to do so, and it can be difficult/tedious to > spot the differences. > > I've just written a checker which diffs the two string args, and colourises > the output. You may find it useful. I'm using red/green background, but I > also added bold for insertions, strike-through for deletions, in case you're > red/green colour blind. My terminal doesn't do strike-through, and your's > probably doesn't either. Anyway, the important thing is you can see the > difference between bits that are the same vs. insertions/deletions. > > Code is at github.com/axw/fancycheck. Just replace > c.Assert("x", gc.Equals, "y") > with > c.Assert("x", fancycheck.StringEquals, "y") > > Cheers, > Andrew > > -- > Juju-dev mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev > -- Juju-dev mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
