Jasmine comes with two matchers that test for equality. The first is toBe:
expect(first).toBe(second)
toBe passes when first === second. Unfortunately this is useless for non-primitive values because
JavaScript is a horrible language
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.
However, Jasmine comes with another matcher toEqual:
expect(first).toEqual(second)
This matcher behaves as a human would expect for types like the following:
- Arrays
- Objects
- Nested array/object constructs
- Regular expressions
-
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Custom equality matchers
You can also
teach toEqual additional notions of equality
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. E.g. the following code will teach toEqual to test two jQuery collections for equality:
beforeEach ->
jasmine.addCustomEqualityTester (first, second) ->
if first instanceof jQuery && second instanceof jQuery
first.is(second)
Using Jasmine's equality logic in your own matchers
You can use Jasmine's built-in equality logic (plus the logic added by custom equality matchers) like this:
beforeEach ->
jasmine.addMatchers
toEqual123Array: (util, customEqualityTesters) ->
compare: (actual)
pass: util.equals(actual, [1, 2, 3], customEqualityTesters)
Note how the compare method is passed two arguments util and customEqualityTesters, which are both needed to access Jasmine's equality logic.
