Why not stub System.out.println, possibly with message expectations if
necessary?

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> On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:06 AM, GregD wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm testing java classed using rspec and jruby.  The java super class
>> is trapping an exception and sending a custom message to stdout along
>> with the original exception meaasage.  The original exception is a
>> SAXParseException, if that really matters.  Well, my test is to see if
>> the child object class can handle a garbled XML message a certain
>> way.   The test passes, but I get the nasty java exception stuff that
>> is being sent to stdout when the tests are running, yuk.  I tried
>> closing and opening stdout before and after that particular test and
>> that did not work or I did it wrong.  And I'm not sure this is
>> desirable if the test fails.   Any ideas on this other than to replace
>> the java with ruby or have the java not to dump to stdout?  ;-)   Both
>> of which, I can not do.  But, I can live with the nastiness of this,
>> if there is no possible way around it.
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> I'd like to bump this message because I am facing a similar situation.
>
> What's a good technique for spec'ing code that prints to STDOUT yet keeps
> the spec output nice and clean?
>
> cr
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