2006/4/17, Andrew Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 4/17/06, Anton Avtamonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Well, not completely agree. I RI has BUG, I agree to have
> > corresponding Harmony test failing. However do you think that
> > different exception messges say is a good reason to have failures? I
> > don't think so. Just a minor differemce which can be 'formally
> > documented' by using isHarmony() is tests.
>
>
> I agree with you that different exception messages are not failures. So in
> my opnion, we'd better avoid such test cases.
> If some exception messages are really very important to developers ( I don't
> have any idea about such Exception classes),

Hi Andrew

Look at tests/api/java/util/regex/PatternSyntaxExceptionTest to get some
ideas. When you parse something and that something is incorrect the
message does matter.

And you have a test to verify that you do not report ()s mismatch when
the problem is somewhere else.

Thanks,
Mikhail

> I think RI should contain similiar information so that we can write some
> test cases, which both RI and Harmony could pass, by verifying keywords
> instead.
> If "isHarmony()" is used, then what's the expected message? I don't think
> there's a "Harmony exception message spec" :-)
> People may argue which message is best or more meanfuling :)
>
> Wishes,
> > --
> > Anton Avtamonov,
> > Intel Middleware Products Division
> >
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