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Workspace PL/I Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 26, 2017

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Add simplified ASSERT COMPARE statement with actualValue, expectedValue and optional comparison type

We would like to reduce coding and duplicity. Given the 1st Use Case example in which we test the function calculateDate we want to remove the variable calculatedDate as well as the duplicate code ('02.01.2014').

So we would like to get a new simplified ASSERT COMPARE (actualValue,expectedValue[,comparisonType]) statement:
- The actualValue as 1st parameter and the expectedValue as 2nd parameeter must match but can be of any type.
- The comparisonType as 3rd parameter is like that in the ALLCOMPARE built-in function and optional with 'EQ' as default.

The actualValue and expectedValue need to be converted to a string to be passed to ibmpas* routine.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 31, 2017

    this was delivered as part of APAR PI75582 / PTF UI44364

    The new ASSERT COMPARE statement provides a more information-rich way to test an assertion that the actual value of an expression compares correctly with an expected value.

    Its syntax is
    ASSERT COMPARE( , [ , ] ) [ TEXT( ) ]

    The statement asserts that the value of the compares to that of the according to the specified (or implied) operator.

    The operator must be one of the same values as permitted as the third argument to the ALLCOMPARE built-in function, and its default value is 'EQ'.

    The and must be scalar expressions that have comparable types.

    If the assertion fails, then
    the compiled code calls the routine IBMPASC. This routine has 9 parameters. The first 5 have the same meanings and values as the 5 parameters to the routines IBMPAST and IBMPASU. The remaining 4 parameters are, in order,
    A BYVALUE POINTER giving the address of a string representing the value of the
    A BYVALUE FIXED BIN(31) giving the length of that string.
    A BYVALUE POINTER giving the address of a string representing the value of the
    A BYVALUE FIXED BIN(31) giving the length of that string.

    The strings representing the actual and expected expressions depend on the type of those expressions. If the comparands have
    Computational types other than GRAPHIC or WIDECHAR, then the strings will be the value of the expressions converted to CHARACTER
    POINTERs or HANDLEs, then the strings will be their HEX values
    ORDINALs, then the strings will be their ORDINALNAME values
    Any other type, then the strings will be null strings

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 27, 2017

    This would be useful

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