Hamcrest exception message while actual and expected are same

Question

I am getting the below exception message while having actual and expected are same. The given reason for the failure seems to be incorrect.

@Test    
            public static void Verify()
            {
                given().
                get("http://services.groupkt.com/country/get/all").
                then().body("RestResponse.messages", equalTo("[Total [249] records 
            found.]"));}

FAILED: Verify
java.lang.AssertionError: 1 expectation failed.
JSON path RestResponse.messages doesn't match.
Expected: [Total [249] records found.]
  Actual: [Total [249] records found.]

    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) and much more....

This could mean trailing spaces or some character which make it visually look the same for you. Please check there are no additional spaces or something — Tarun Lalwani, Mar 25 '18 at 18:37
Actually the output only proves that expected and actual produce the same toString() representation, they are not necessarily of the same type. By the way, of which content type is the response body? — mle, Mar 26 '18 at 19:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '18 at 13:47

@Prasad: Its due to string char I suspect. Try this code it should work

    @Test
public void Verify()
{
    given()
            .get("http://services.groupkt.com/country/get/all")
            .then()
            .body("RestResponse.messages[0]",equalTo("Total [249] records found."));}

mle · Answer 2 · 2018-03-26T20:00:40.897

Ah because everyone has access to your used URL, I could offer you this solution:

@Test
public void restAssured() {
    RestAssured.given()
            .accept(ContentType.JSON)
            .get("http://services.groupkt.com/country/get/all")
            .then()
            .statusCode(200)
            .body("RestResponse.messages", hasSize(1))
            .body("RestResponse.messages[0]", is("Total [249] records found."))
            .body("RestResponse.messages", is(Arrays.asList("Total [249] records found.")));
}

Watch out for the various assertions possible:

size assertion of the list
single item assertion
complete assertion of the whole list

Hamcrest exception message while actual and expected are same

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