Day: January 20, 2009

After all the abuse in my previous post, I feel a bit guilty. Luckily Mockito provides a way out of that problem by allowing hamcrest matchers being used to verify arguments. Here we go: verify(listener).propertyChange( (PropertyChangeEvent)argThat( new HasEqualState( new PropertyChangeEvent(holder, “value”, “Old”, “New”)))); It is not nice, but it works. Of course I also had…

What troubles me with java is, that the implementors of its standard library utterly failed at setting an example. Java developers don’t know how to do proper christian oo, because every time they peek into the library sources they see C-ish hacks. Today I realised that PropertyChangeEvent is not implementing equals based on its value.…