New expectation functions plus convert old tests to use these.

lib/unittest/interfaces.dart

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+// 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.
+
+// To decouple the reporting of errors, and allow for extensibility of
+// matchers, we make use of some interfaces.
+
+/**
+ * The ErrorFormatter type is used for functions that
+ * can be used to build up error reports upon [expect] failures.
+ * There is one built-in implementation ([defaultErrorFormatter])
+ * which is used by the default failure handler. If the failure handler
+ * is replaced it may be desirable to replace the [stringDescription]
+ * error formatter with another.
+ */
+typedef String ErrorFormatter(actual, Matcher matcher, String reason);
+
+/**
+ * Matchers build up their error messages by appending to
+ * Description objects. This interface is implemented by
+ * StringDescription. This interface is unlikely to need
+ * other implementations, but could be useful to replace in
+ * some cases - e.g. language conversion.
+ */
+interface Description {
+  /** This is used to add arbitrary text to the description. */
+  Description add(String text);
+  /** This is used to add a meaningful description of a value. */

[Siggi Cherem (dart-lang), 2012/06/06 00:26:08]

style nit: add empty line above this comment (here and in all members below)

[gram, 2012/06/06 16:23:56]

Done.

+  Description addDescriptionOf(value);
+  /**
+   * This is used to add a description of an [Iterable] [list],
+   * with appropriate [start] and [end] markers and inter-element [separator].
+   */
+  Description addAll(String start, String separator, String end,
+                       Iterable list);
+}
+
+/**
+ * [expect] Matchers must implement the Matcher interface.
+ * The base Matcher class that implements this interface has
+ * a generic implementation of [describeMismatch] so this does
+ * not need to be provided unless a more clear description is
+ * required. The other two methods ([matches] and [describe])
+ * must always be provided as they are highly matcher-specific.
+ */
+interface Matcher {
+  /** This does the matching of the actual vs expected values. */
+  bool matches(item);
+  /** This builds a textual description of the matcher. */
+  Description describe(Description description);
+  /**This builds a textual description of a specific mismatch. */
+  Description describeMismatch(item, Description mismatchDescription);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Failed matches are reported using a default IFailureHandler.
+ * The default implementation simply throws ExpectExceptions;
+ * this can be replaced by some other implementation of
+ * IFailureHandler by calling configureExpectHandler.
+ */
+interface FailureHandler {
+  /** This handles failures given a textual decription */
+  void fail(String reason);
+  /**
+   * This handles failures given the actual [value], the [matcher]
+   * and the [reason]. It will typically use these to create a
+   * detailed error message (typically using an [ErrorFormatter])
+   * and then call [fail].
+   */
+  void failMatch(actual, Matcher matcher, String reason);
+}
+