1/* 2 * Copyright (c) 2007 Mockito contributors 3 * This program is made available under the terms of the MIT License. 4 */ 5package org.mockito.internal.matchers; 6 7/** 8 * Intended to use in certain ArgumentMatchers. 9 * When ArgumentMatcher fails, chance is that the actual object has the same output of toString() than 10 * the wanted object. This looks weird when failures are reported. 11 * Therefore when matcher fails but toString() yields the same outputs, 12 * we will try to use the {@link #toStringWithType()} method. 13 */ 14public interface ContainsExtraTypeInfo { 15 16 /** 17 * Returns more verbose description of the object which include type information 18 */ 19 String toStringWithType(); 20 21 /** 22 * Checks if target target has matching type. 23 * If the type matches, there is no point in rendering result from {@link #toStringWithType()} 24 */ 25 boolean typeMatches(Object target); 26} 27