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A sort of fix for issue #1127 (take 2)#1300

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This is substantially the same change as in #1216, ported onto master as discussed. I will repeat the PR blurb for ease of reading ...

In issue #1127, @sf105 noted that when comparing two arrays which differ in length, assertArrayEquals() will only report that they differ in length, which he found insufficient for easy diagnosis. As a fix, he suggested printing the complete actual array contents.

Rather than doing that, this PR changes assertArrayEquals() to do the usual array comparison even when arrays differ in length, producing a failure message which combines the difference in length and the first difference in content. I think this should ease diagnosis, as @sf105 wanted, and it doesn't require making big changes to the code, adding Hamcrest, introducing a new behaviour (JUnit doesn't print complete array contents anywhere else), or blowing people's IDEs up when they compare multi-megabyte byte arrays.

int actualsLength = Array.getLength(actuals);
int expectedsLength = Array.getLength(expecteds);
if (actualsLength != expectedsLength) {
header = header + "array lengths differed, expected.length="

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Can do. I always get a bit creeped out by doing += on strings, for some reason!

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This change looks really useful.

@junit-team/junit-committers Please take a look! :-)

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kcooney commented May 19, 2016

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I agree with Marc

@kcooney kcooney closed this in b2d7fce May 29, 2016
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kcooney commented May 29, 2016

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Merged. Thanks!

@tomwhoiscontrary could you please update the release notes at https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/wiki/4.13-Release-Notes ?

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@kcooney Thanks. Release note added - let me know if it needs improving.

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kcooney commented May 30, 2016

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@tomwhoiscontrary looks great. Thanks!

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