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Taz
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3 years ago

How to stop "assert" to display junk at the end of a failed assertion message?

There is an annoying side effect when using "assert" in a groovy script to verify items from a property. It often displays too much junk at the end of it:   Assertion failed: assert ep.Flow == sp...
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Melissaservin
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3 years ago
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The easiest way to stop the display of junk at the end of a failed assertion message is to use the assert function from the built-in Python "unittest" library instead of the assert statement. The unittest library provides more control over the assertion messages and their formatting.  upsers account

 

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    Taz
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    3 years ago
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    Interesting.  Could you give an example or is there some documentation about how to do this?