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Re: STAssertEquals and type-checking
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Re: STAssertEquals and type-checking


  • Subject: Re: STAssertEquals and type-checking
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:50:25 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:36:57 -0700, Jens Alfke said:

>I’ve been using the STxxx test macros lately, as they’re the path of
>least resistance, but I’m getting pretty frustrated with them. Worst is
>the way that STAssertEquals is extremely picky about types (the actual
>and expected parameters have to have exactly the same type), and worse,
>somehow manages to defer the type checking until runtime, so you only
>find out when you get an assertion failure.
>
>So I keep making ‘mistakes’ like:
>	STAssertEquals(myArray.length, 32, nil);
>which compiles fine, but fails at runtime because -length returns an
>NSUInteger and 32 is an int. Changing 32 to 32u works on 32-bit but not
>64-bit; the only form I’ve found that always works is the awkward
>    STAssertEquals(digest.length, (NSUInteger)32, nil);
>Not surprisingly, I still forget to do this pretty often.

We've had the same experience, and the same solution I'm afraid. :(

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
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