Consider AssertJ variant of MockMvc

[philwebb]

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[philwebb]

https://github.com/philwebb/spring-boot/tree/gh-5729

[sbrannen]

Related discussion on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34447446/is-there-a-way-to-use-assertj-assertions-with-spring-mvc-test

[linux-china]

Devs, any plan to merge https://github.com/philwebb/spring-boot/blob/771ae1c8ad2796eaa1ce0b8b226dc325cbc9d4b9/spring-boot-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/test/mvc/MvcResultAssert.java into Spring Boot tester? MvcResultAssert is awesome. :)

[philwebb]

@linux-china We're still considering what to do. The worry is that an alternative MockMVC might be confusing.

[jhyot]

This would be great for us, since we have completely moved from Hamcrest to AssertJ, and now MockMVC is bringing Hamcrest back through the back door.

[marceloverdijk]

+1

For a project I also want to move from hamcrest to assertj.

The project uses Kotlin which makes it also a bit nasty to use the is matchers.

[volodymyrprokopyuk]

It would be nice to be able to use AssertJ assertions with MockMVCResultMathces.

[PascalSchumacher]

+1, AssertJ support would be great

[jcthalys]

+1, please AssertJ support...

[bclozel]

I think this should move to Spring Framework; I've created SPR-16637.

I'll close this issue of the framework team moves in favor of that. Please comment/vote on that issue if you feel this should be supported: any feedback or use case that describes the importance of that feature should help.

[ashishjmeshram]

+1

[manueljordan]

+1 AssertJ is very valuable to test items of a collection through tuple and very easy to test Date objects through parse method. I am sure Spring MVC Test with AssertJ are going to improve the testing code work.

[sudhirtumati]

+1

[philwebb]

Closing in favor of the Framework Issue.