001// Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 002// 003// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 004// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 005// You may obtain a copy of the License at 006// 007// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 008// 009// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 010// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 011// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 012// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 013// limitations under the License. 014 015package org.apache.hivemind.test; 016 017/** 018 * An {@link org.apache.hivemind.test.ArgumentMatcher} that only compares the <em>types</em> of 019 * the two objects, not their actual values. This is useful for Throwable arguments, (since 020 * Throwables rarely implement a useful <code>equals</code>). This allows a check that the right 021 * type of exception was passed in (even if it doesn't check that the exception's message and other 022 * properties are correct). 023 * 024 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 025 */ 026public class TypeMatcher extends AbstractArgumentMatcher 027{ 028 public boolean compareArguments(Object expected, Object actual) 029 { 030 return expected.getClass().equals(actual.getClass()); 031 } 032}