Package org.xmlunit.diff

Interface ComparisonFormatter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultComparisonFormatter

public interface ComparisonFormatter

Formatter methods for a Comparison Object.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getDescription(Comparison difference)	Return a short String of the Comparison including the XPath and the shorten value of the effected control and test Node.
String	getDetails(Comparison.Detail details, ComparisonType type, boolean formatXml)	Return the xml node from Comparison.Detail.getTarget() as formatted String.

Method Detail

getDescription

String getDescription(Comparison difference)

Return a short String of the Comparison including the XPath and the shorten value of the effected control and test Node.

This is used for Diff.toString().

Parameters:

difference - the comparison to describe

Returns:

a short description of the comparison

getDetails

String getDetails(Comparison.Detail details,
                  ComparisonType type,
                  boolean formatXml)

Return the xml node from Comparison.Detail.getTarget() as formatted String.

This can be used to produce a nice compare-View in your IDE (e.g. with org.junit.ComparisonFailure).

Parameters:

details - The Comparison.getControlDetails() or Comparison.getTestDetails().

type - the implementation can return different details depending on the ComparisonType.

formatXml - set this to true if the Comparison was generated with DiffBuilder.ignoreWhitespace().

Returns:

the full xml node.