Hamcrest v1.1 Release Notes
Release Date: 2007-06-30 // almost 17 years ago-
- Hamcrest Generator now includes JavaDoc and parameter names in generated code by using QDox to parse the source code.
- 🚚 Created hamcrest-core.jar (and removed hamcrest-api.jar). Moved core set of matchers (and, eq, not, etc) to this package to make it more practical for external libraries to embed Hamcrest.
- Created CoreMatchers (static import sugar) in hamcrest-core.jar.
- StringBuilder can use any Appendable (not just StringBuffer).
- ➕ Added sensible toString() method to BaseMatcher.
- Created StringDescription.asString() alias (because toString() caused issues with static imports).
- 😌 Relaxed isInstanceOf() matcher generic type so it can be used on any kind of object. e.g. assertThat(someUnknownObject, isInstanceOf(String.class));
- ➕ Added any(Class), null(Class) and notNull(Class) matchers, which returns Matcher. Helpful when the compiler struggles with type inference.
- Modified anyOf() and allOf() to accept mixed-types.
- TypeSafeMatcher.matchesSafely() is now public.
- Generator recognizes @Factory methods that return subclass of Matcher. (Fix by David Saff)