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How to assert that a list does not contain something, with FEST?

I'm using FEST to write assertions in JUnit.

It's easy to assert that a list is containing some elements:

assertThat(list).contains(2,4);

But how to assert that the list is not containing something? Like:

assertThat(list).doesnotContain(3); // !!! no such method
Solution

  • I've just been having a browse through the source code for the version 1 branch and found this:

    /**
 * Verifies that the actual group of objects does not contain the given objects.
 *
 * @param objects the objects that the group of objects should exclude.
 * @return this assertion object.
 * @throws AssertionError       if the actual group of objects is {@code null}.
 * @throws NullPointerException if the given array is {@code null}.
 * @throws AssertionError       if the actual group of objects contains any of the given objects.
 */
public final @Nonnull S excludes(@Nonnull Object... objects) {
    assertExcludes(objects);
    return myself();
}

    I probably shouldn't make wild assumptions like this, but it's in the same class as your contains method (ObjectGroupAssert) and the Javadoc seems to describe the functionality you're looking for.

    So I think, you would just need:

    assertThat(list).excludes(5,7);