Compare Date objects with different levels of precision

Question

I have a JUnit test that fails because the milliseconds are different. In this case I don\'t care about the milliseconds. How can I change the precision of the assert to i

Answer 1

In JUnit you can program two assert methods, like this:

public class MyTest {
  @Test
  public void test() {
    ...
    assertEqualDates(expectedDateObject, resultDate);

    // somewhat more confortable:
    assertEqualDates("01/01/2012", anotherResultDate);
  }

  private static final String DATE_PATTERN = "dd/MM/yyyy";

  private static void assertEqualDates(String expected, Date value) {
      DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_PATTERN);
      String strValue = formatter.format(value);
      assertEquals(expected, strValue);
  }

  private static void assertEqualDates(Date expected, Date value) {
    DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_PATTERN);
    String strExpected = formatter.format(expected);
    String strValue = formatter.format(value);
    assertEquals(strExpected, strValue);
  }
}