New expectation functions plus convert old tests to use these.

lib/unittest/string_matchers.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+/**
+ * Returns a matcher which matches if the match argument is a string and
+ * is equal to [value] when compared case-insensitively.
+ */
+IMatcher equalsIgnoringCase(String value) => new _IsEqualIgnoringCase(value);
+
+class _IsEqualIgnoringCase extends _StringMatcher {
+  final String _value;
+  String _matchValue;
+
+  _IsEqualIgnoringCase(this._value) {
+    _matchValue = _value.toLowerCase();
+  }
+
+  bool matches(item) => item is String && _matchValue == item.toLowerCase();
+
+  IDescription describe(IDescription description) =>
+      description.addDescriptionOf(_value).add(' ignoring case');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a matcher which matches if the match argument is a string and
+ * is equal to [value] when compared with all runs of whitespace
+ * collapsed to single spaces and leading and trailing whitespace removed.
+ *
+ * For example, `equalsIgnoringCase("hello world")` will match
+ * "hello   world", "  hello world" and "hello world  ".
+ */
+IMatcher equalsIgnoringWhitespace(_string) =>
+    new _IsEqualIgnoringWhiteSpace(_string);
+
+class _IsEqualIgnoringWhiteSpace extends _StringMatcher {

[Bob Nystrom, 2012/06/01 18:22:23]

This is private so it matters less, but for consistency's sake this should
probably be _IsEqualIgnoringWhitespace now too.

[gram, 2012/06/01 22:22:00]

Done.

+  final String _value;
+  String _matchValue;
+
+  _IsEqualIgnoringWhiteSpace(this._value) {
+    _matchValue = _collapseWhitespace(_value);
+  }
+
+  bool matches(item) =>
+      item is String && _matchValue == _collapseWhitespace(item);
+
+  IDescription describe(IDescription description) =>
+    description.addDescriptionOf(_matchValue).add(' ignoring whitespace');
+
+  IDescription describeMismatch(item, IDescription mismatchDescription) {
+    if (item is String) {
+      return mismatchDescription.add('was ').
+          addDescriptionOf(_collapseWhitespace(item));
+    } else {
+      return super.describeMismatch(item, mismatchDescription);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Utility function to collapse whitespace runs

[Bob Nystrom, 2012/06/01 18:22:23]

Doc comment?

[gram, 2012/06/01 22:22:00]

Done.

+
+  String _collapseWhitespace(_string) {
+    bool isWhitespace(String ch) => (' \n\r\t'.indexOf(ch) >= 0);
+    StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
+    bool skipSpace = true;
+    for (var i = 0; i < _string.length; i++) {
+      var character = _string[i];
+      if (isWhitespace(character)) {
+        if (!skipSpace) {
+          result.add(' ');
+          skipSpace = true;
+        }
+      } else {
+        result.add(character);
+        skipSpace = false;
+      }
+    }
+    return result.toString().trim();
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a matcher that matches if the match argument is a string and
+ * starts with [prefixString].
+ */
+IMatcher startsWith(String prefixString) => new _StringStartsWith(prefixString);
+
+class _StringStartsWith extends _StringMatcher {
+  final String _prefix;
+
+  const _StringStartsWith(this._prefix);
+
+  bool matches(item) => item is String && item.startsWith(_prefix);
+
+  IDescription describe(IDescription description) =>
+      description.add('a string starting with ').addDescriptionOf(_prefix);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a matcher that matches if the match argument is a string and
+ * ends with [suffixString].
+ */
+IMatcher endsWith(String suffixString) => new _StringEndsWith(suffixString);
+
+class _StringEndsWith extends _StringMatcher {
+
+  final String _suffix;
+
+  const _StringEndsWith(this._suffix);
+
+  bool matches(item) => item is String && item.endsWith(_suffix);
+
+  IDescription describe(IDescription description) =>
+      description.add('a string ending with ').addDescriptionOf(_suffix);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a matcher that matches if the match argument is a string and
+ * contains a given list of [substrings] in relative order.
+ *
+ * For example, `stringContainsInOrder(["a", "e", "i", "o", "u"])` will match

[Bob Nystrom, 2012/06/01 18:22:23]

Yay markdown!

[gram, 2012/06/01 22:22:00]

Done.

+ * "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".
+ */
+IMatcher stringContainsInOrder(substrings) =>
+    new _StringContainsInOrder(substrings);
+
+class _StringContainsInOrder extends _StringMatcher {
+
+  final List<String> _substrings;
+
+  const _StringContainsInOrder(this._substrings);
+
+  bool matches(item) {
+    if (!(item is String)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    var from_index = 0;
+    for (var s in _substrings) {
+      from_index = item.indexOf(s, from_index);
+      if (from_index < 0)
+        return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  IDescription describe(IDescription description) =>
+      description.addList('a string containing ', ', ', ' in order',
+                                                  _substrings);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a matcher that matches if the match argument is a string and
+ * matches the regular expression given by [re]. [re] can be a RegExp
+ * instance or a string; in the latter case it will be used to create
+ * a RegExp instance.
+ */
+IMatcher matches(re) => new _MatchesRegExp(re);
+
+class _MatchesRegExp extends _StringMatcher {
+  RegExp _regexp;
+
+  _MatchesRegExp(re) {
+    if (re is String) {
+      _regexp = new RegExp(re);
+    } else if (re is RegExp) {
+      _regexp = re;
+    } else {
+      throw new IllegalArgumentException('matches requires a regexp or string');
+    }
+  }
+
+  bool matches(String item) => _regexp.hasMatch(item);
+
+  IDescription describe(IDescription description) =>
+      description.add("match '${_regexp.pattern}'");
+}
+
+// String matchers match against a string. We add this intermediate
+// class to give better mismatch error messages than the base Matcher class.
+/*abstract*/ class _StringMatcher extends Matcher {
+  const _StringMatcher();
+  IDescription describeMismatch(item, IDescription mismatchDescription) {
+    if (!(item is String)) {
+      return mismatchDescription.
+          addDescriptionOf(item).
+          add(' not a string');
+    } else {
+      return super.describeMismatch(item, mismatchDescription);
+    }
+  }
+}