Hamcrest Bacon

The delicious add-on for Hamcrest

Bacon is a collection of additions for Hamcrest geared towards increasing readability and ease of use.

New Matchers

HB provides several new matchers that range from pure syntactic sugar to genuinely useful, meatier code. Use the org.hamcrest.bacon.Matchers.* static import and the following matchers become available.

Sugar:

• has(Matcher<T>)
• a(Matcher<T>)
• that(Matcher<T>)
• property(String)
• property(String, Matcher<T>)
• aProperty(String)
• aProperty(String, Matcher<T>)

Meat

• contains(Matcher<T>)
• substrings(String...)
• containsSubstrings(String...)
• matchesRegex(String...)
• field(String)
• field(String, Matcher<T>)
• aField(String)
• aField(String, Matcher<T>)

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Sugar

has

The HasMatcher provides a composable means of expressing ownership assertions.

assertThat(list, has(a(property("property"))));