Poor comparison for ContentRequestMatchers#bytes [SPR-14281]

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James Howe opened SPR-14281 and commented

This request matcher uses assertEquals instead of something like JUnit's assertArrayEquals.
Because of this, the output on failure is

java.lang.AssertionError: Request content 
Expected :[B@7976d382
Actual   :[B@59f36439

Instead of showing the actual difference between the arrays.

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Reference URL: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/master/spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/web/client/match/ContentRequestMatchers.java#L141

Referenced from: commits 822e40e

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Juergen Hoeller commented

As of 4.3, we're exposing ObjectUtils.nullSafeToString results there, in sync with the ObjectUtils.nullSafeEquals check for the actual comparison: For arrays, that implies a list-like representation of the elements.