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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:41:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: [lang] Better Validate.isInstance messages
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
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Now in SVN :)

Gary

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Henri Yandell <flamefew@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 :)
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:42 PM, sebb <sebbaz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 7 September 2011 19:26, Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi All:
> >> >
> >> > The message for the exception thrown by Validate.isInstance does not
> >> mention
> >> > the actual type, only the expected type.
> >> >
> >> > Is there any objection to changing this?
> >> >
> >> > trunk: "The validated object is not an instance of %s"
> >> >
> >> > Proposal (1): "The validated object is expected to be an instance of
> %s,
> >> not
> >> > a %s"
> >> >
> >> > Or more succinctly (2): "Expected an instance of %s, got a %"
> >> >
> >> > Or more succinctly (3), a la JUnit: "Expected: %s, actual: %"
> >> >
> >> > Thoughts?
> >>
> >> (3) seems fine.
> >>
> >
> > Here are examples of what I have in my local sandbox (not in SVN yet):
> >
> > - isAssignableFrom: "Cannot assign a java.lang.String to a java.util.List
> > - isInstance: "Expected type: java.util.List, actual: java.lang.String"
> >
> > Tracking here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-751
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> >>
> >> > Gary
> >> >
> >> >
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