Collection Matchers
This page describes the rich assertions (matchers) that are available for Collection, Iterable and Array types.
Also, see inspectors which are useful ways to test multiple elements in a collection.
| Collections | |
|---|---|
collection.shouldBeEmpty() | Asserts that the collections has zero elements. |
collection.shouldBeUnique() | Asserts that all the elements of the collection are distinct using the natural equals of the elements. |
collection.shouldBeUnique(comparator) | Asserts that all the elements of the collection are distinct by comparing elements using the given comparator. |
collection.shouldContain(element) | Asserts that the collection contains the given element. |
collection.shouldContainAll(e1, e2, ..., en) | Asserts that the collection contains all the elements listed, where order is not important. Ie, element 2 can be in the collection before element 1. |
collection.shouldContainDuplicates() | Asserts that the collection contains at least one duplicate element. |
collection.shouldContainExactly() | Assert that a collection contains exactly the given values and nothing else, in order. |
collection.shouldContainExactlyInAnyOrder() | Assert that a collection contains exactly the given values and nothing else, in any order. |
collection.shouldContainAllInAnyOrder() | Assert that a collection contains all the given values, in any order. |
collection.shouldContainNoNulls() | Asserts that the collection contains no null elements, or is empty. |
collection.shouldContainNull() | Asserts that the collection contains at least one null element. |
collection.shouldContainOnlyNulls() | Asserts that the collection contains only null elements, or is empty. |
collection.shouldContainAllIgnoringFields() | Asserts that the collection contains all the elements listed ignoring one or more fields. |
collection.shouldHaveSingleElement(element) | Asserts that the collection only contains a single element and that that element is the given one. |
collection.shouldHaveSingleElement { block } | Asserts that the collection contains a single element by a given predicate. |
collection.shouldHaveSize(length) | Asserts that the collection is exactly the given length. |
collection.shouldBeSingleton() | Asserts that the collection contains only one element. |
collection.shouldBeSingleton { block } | Asserts that the collection only one element, and then, runs the block with this element. |
collection.shouldHaveLowerBound(element) | Asserts that the given element is smaller or equal to every element of the collection. Works only for elements that implement Comparable. |
collection.shouldHaveUpperBound(element) | Asserts that the given element is larger or equal to every element of the collection. Works only for elements that implement Comparable. |
collection.shouldBeSmallerThan(col) | Asserts that the collection is smaller than the other collection. |
collection.shouldBeLargerThan(col) | Asserts that the collection is larger than the other collection. |
collection.shouldBeSameSizeAs(col) | Asserts that the collection has the same size as the other collection. |
collection.shouldHaveAtLeastSize(n) | Asserts that the collection has at least size n. |
collection.shouldHaveAtMostSize(n) | Asserts that the collection has at most size n. |
list.shouldBeSorted() | Asserts that the list is sorted. |
list.shouldBeSortedBy { transform } | Asserts that the list is sorted by the value after applying the transform. |
list.shouldContainInOrder(other) | Asserts that this list contains the given list in order. Other elements may appear either side of the given list. |
list.shouldExistInOrder({ element }, ...) | Asserts that this list contains elements matching the predicates in order. Other elements may appear around or between the elements matching the predicates. |
list.shouldHaveElementAt(index, element) | Asserts that this list contains the given element at the given position. |
list.shouldStartWith(lst) | Asserts that this list starts with the elements of the given list, in order. |
list.shouldEndWith(lst) | Asserts that this list ends with the elements of the given list, in order. |
iterable.shouldMatchEach(assertions) | Iterates over this list and the assertions and asserts that each element of this list passes the associated assertion. Fails if size of the collections mismatch. |
iterable.shouldMatchInOrder(assertions) | Asserts that there is a subsequence of this iterator that matches the assertions in order, with no gaps allowed. |
iterable.shouldMatchInOrderSubset(assertions) | Asserts that there is a subsequence (possibly with gaps) that matches the assertions in order. |
value.shouldBeOneOf(collection) | Asserts that a specific instance is contained in a collection. |
collection.shouldContainAnyOf(collection) | Asserts that the collection has at least one of the elements in collection |
value.shouldBeIn(collection) | Asserts that an object is contained in collection, checking by value and not by reference. |