if I only want to use kotest assertions in a jvm project, which dependencies should I include?

# kotest

[akowal]

if I only want to use kotest assertions in a jvm project, which dependencies should I include?

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

Hi @akowal you will only need to add kotest-assertions-core-jvm your build tool will it self pull its all transitive dependencies.

[akowal]

hey! as I mentioned below, the problem is that kotest-assertions-core-jvm has runtime dependency on kotest-assertions-jvm , so I get compilation errors

[akowal]

e.g. io.kotest.matchers.ShouldKt#shouldBe is contained in kotest-assertions-jvm

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

try this import io.kotest.matchers.collections.shouldContain

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

"should contain" {
    listOf(1, 2, 3) shouldContain 1
}

[akowal]

yeah, it works because it's in kotest-assertions-core-jvm

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

Its not in jvm module its in commonMain module

https://github.com/kotest/kotest/blob/233fff8da9023cd4311dcf63a222aa6f03f98ba5/kotest-assertions/kotest-assertions-core/src/commonMain/kotlin/io/kotest/matchers/collections/contain.kt

[akowal]

here's minimal example to reproduce the issue

[akowal]

https://github.com/akowal/kotest-deps-issue

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

Thanks i will look into it

[akowal]

👍

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

Thanks @akowal thats seems to be a bug.

Weird part though is when kotest-runner-junit5-jvm is classpath that imports works.

Could you please open a github issue for this.

[akowal]

sure!

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

Thanks

[akowal]

check #1425

[LeoColman]

Add io.kotest:kotest-assertions-jvm:version as well

[LeoColman]

So

api "io.kotest:kotest-assertions-core-jvm:4.0.5"
api "io.kotest:kotest-assertions-jvm:4.0.5"

[LeoColman]

(Or implementation)