What's the best way to assert that two ByteArrays ...

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[Klitos Kyriacou]

What's the best way to assert that two ByteArrays are the same (as per contentEquals)?

[LeoColman]

The quickest way is toList() on both sides and don't think about arrays

[LeoColman]

I do believe that 'shouldBe' handles it. I was looking for prove but couldn't find yet.

You can probably use arrA shouldBe arrB

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Thanks. I thought shouldBe used equals.

[LeoColman]

It does use equals but for special cases it will make some transformations beforehand. For our case here Arrays

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Thanks, I confirm shouldBe works.

[Alex Kuznetsov]

shouldContainExactly gives a more detailed description of differences

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Thanks, that's true. It doesn't work on arrays, but you can do actualByteArray.asIterable() shouldContainExactly expectedByteArray.asIterable()