Invalid characters in XML reports
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Key: SUREFIRE-57
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-57
Project: surefire
Issue Type: Bug
Components: JUnit 3.x support
Reporter: Klaus Brunner
Priority: Critical
Surefire (or possibly Xpp3Dom?) should check for invalid characters in JUnit
output and escape or mask them to ensure valid XML reports. This applies to all
characters outside the allowed range defined in the XML spec
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Char).
I have a JUnit test case that uses assertEquals on strings. In some situations,
the string to compare against the reference may be completely garbled and
contain things such as null characters, which then show up in the assertion
failure message ("expected X but was Y") and consequently in the XML reports.
Here's a simple test case to trigger the problem:
public class InvalidCharactersTest extends TestCase {
public void testStrings() {
String expected = "abc";
String actual = "abc" + '\u0000';
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
}
The resulting Surefire XML report contains the null character as is and is
therefore not valid XML. Running the Surefire Reports plugin then fails with a
parsing error.
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