bmizerany/assert

Asserts to Go testing

assert's Issues

assert.Equal panics on unexported fields

Given two unequal structs from another package with unexported fields assert.Equal will panic.

Example with time package

package asserttest

import (
    "github.com/bmizerany/assert"
    "testing"
    "time"
)

func TestBreakAssert(t *testing.T) {
    assert.Equal(t, time.Now(), time.Unix(0, 0))
}

Example with an invented struct

asserttest/assert_test.go

package asserttest

import (
    "other"
    "github.com/bmizerany/assert"
    "testing"
)

func TestBreakAssert2(t *testing.T) {
    a := new(other.Other)
    a.Outer = 2
    b := new(other.Other)
    b.Outer = 4
    assert.Equal(t, a, b)
}

other/other.go

package other

type Other struct {
    Outer int
    inner int
}

Both these snippets panic like so

panic: reflect.Value.Interface: cannot return value obtained from unexported field or method [recovered]
panic: reflect.Value.Interface: cannot return value obtained from unexported field or method
etc ...

Add License

Can you please add a license such as Apache 2, BSD, or MIT. Without a license we don't know the terms of the code for use in our own applications and libraries.

Until there is a license I can't use this package.

is there any plan merge into go testing package?

I thing official support assert is must-have feature