[jira] [Created] (OLTU-164) JSON comparison in test case best practice

["Simone Tripodi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Simone Tripodi created OLTU-164:
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             Summary: JSON comparison in test case best practice
                 Key: OLTU-164
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OLTU-164
             Project: Apache Oltu
          Issue Type: Test
            Reporter: Simone Tripodi
            Priority: Critical


there are a couple of tests in the oauth-2.0/common codebase failing on CLI, but succeed in Eclipse, see below for details...

{noformat}
OAuthResponseTest.testErrorResponse:47 expected:<{"[error_uri":"http://example-uri","error":"error","param":"value","realm":"album","state":"ok","error_description":"error_description]"}> but was:<{"[param":"value","error_description":"error_description","realm":"album","state":"ok","error":"error","error_uri":"http://example-uri]"}>
{noformat}

I honestly think that comparing serialised JSON strings is not the best way to assert two JSON documents are representing exactly the same data, we need to handle that situation...

The [jsonassert|http://jsonassert.skyscreamer.org/] library looks like to be the good choice to assert two json object represent exactly the same data.

If there are no objections, I would use {{jsonassert}} in all tests handling JSON data representation...

Thoughts? TIA! :)



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