junit ComparisonFailure running Cactus tests

[Mark Lybarger <Ma...@CBC-Companies.com>]

I'm having troubles running my cactus tests that I believe may be related to
this message I came accross in the archives:

http://www.mail-archive.com/cactus-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg02984.html


I've recently added lots of asserts to my testing (that's a good thing,
right?), and noticed that my tests were not failing when they're expected
to. So I check out my weblogic log file, and see tons of these messages:

####<Oct 23, 2003 3:56:15 PM EDT> <Error> <HTTP> <mlybarger> <myserver>
<ExecuteThread: '9' for queue: 'default'> <> <> <101020>
<[WebAppServletContext(4299438,test,/test)] Servlet failed with Exception> 
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at
junit.framework.ComparisonFailure.getMessage(ComparisonFailure.java:34)
	at org.apache.cactus.WebTestResult.<init>(WebTestResult.java:132)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.AbstractWebTestCaller.doTest(AbstractWebTestCaller.
java:166)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.AbstractWebTestController.dispatch133_handleRequest
(AbstractWebTestController.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:
130)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.AbstractWebTestController.around133_handleRequest(A
bstractWebTestController.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:11
58)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.AbstractWebTestController.handleRequest(AbstractWeb
TestController.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:101)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.ServletTestRedirector.dispatch160_doPost(ServletTes
tRedirector.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:125)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.ServletTestRedirector.around160_doPost(ServletTestR
edirector.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:1158)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.ServletTestRedirector.doPost(ServletTestRedirector.
java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:109)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.ServletTestRedirector.dispatch159_doGet(ServletTest
Redirector.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:96)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.ServletTestRedirector.around159_doGet(ServletTestRe
director.java;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:1158)
	at
org.apache.cactus.server.ServletTestRedirector.doGet(ServletTestRedirector.j
ava;org/apache/cactus/util/log/LogAspect.aj[1k]:92)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
	at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java
:265)
	at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:21)
	at
weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:27)
	at
weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletCo
ntext.java:2501)
	at
weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java
:2204)
	at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:139)
	at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:120)

I believe I'm using 3.8.1 of junit, and either 1.5b1 of cactus or cactus
libs from an eclipse plugin version dated 09/09/03.  I commented out my
assertEquals and now I'm getting failed test results (using fail(String)),
and no error messages in the logs!  Seems to be going smoothly. I never
really kept version numbers on my jar files if they even came with them, but
I'll try different versions today of junit/cactus to see what I come up
with. 

BTW, regarding version numbers, I notice there was a 1.5beta1, and the
latest manual nightlies are 1.6dev.  was the 1.5 release scrapped?  Any
insights into this issue would be MOST appreciated!

Thanks!
~Mark

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