Jasmine Core 3.6 Release Notes

Summary

This is a maintenance release of Jasmine with a number of new features and fixes.

Highlights

• Added support for custom object formatters

  • Allows customizing how an object is stringified in matcher failure messages
  • Tutorial
  • API reference

• Don’t require matchers and asymmetric equality testers to pass custom object formatters back to Jasmine

  • Supports custom object formatters.
  • Makes it easier to write high quality matchers and asymmetric equality testers.
  • The old API will still work until 4.0.

• Properly import jasmineRequire object before using

  • Improves compatibility with Webpack
  • Merges #1766 from @amilligan

• Added a toHaveBeenCalledOnceWith matcher

  • Merges #1801 from @Maximaximum
  • Fixes #1717

• Added a toHaveSize matcher

  • Merges #1796 from @wokier

• Added a toBePending async matcher

  • Merges #1808 from @DCtheTall
  • Fixes #1803

• Added support for user-defined spec/suite properties

  • Allows specs/suites to pass data to custom reporters
  • Merges #1763 from @johnjbarton

• Route unhandled promise rejections to onerror

  • Merges #1778 from @johnjbarton
  • Fixes #1777

Internal notes

• Use a version of eslint that works on Node 8

• Check for syntax and standard library objects that don’t work in IE

• Run eslint against all files

• Add Additional Test for equals Matcher

  • Merges #1829 from @tobiasschweizer
  • Fixes #1821

• Depend on head of jasmine-browser to fix IE failures in CI

• Fixed test failure in Firefox 74

• Added test for resolveTo/rejectWith with empty parameters

  • Merges #1802 from @chivesrs

• Removed unnecessary uses of new in tests

• Realigned the browser testing matrix to match current reality

  • Use Windows instead of Linux so we can get current browsers from Sauce.
  • Test against the version of Firefox that corresponds to ESR as well as latest.
  • Test the latest Edge rather than a specific older version.
  • Test Safari 8 and 13 instead of 8, 9 and 10. What works in those versions is likely to work in the ones in between.

• Don’t leak global error handlers between Jasmine’s own tests

• Added basic property tests for matchersUtil.equals

• Added integration tests for existing matcher interfaces

• Added integration tests for asymmetric equality testers

• Test IE before other browsers on Travis

Other Changes

• Show diffs involving root-level asymmetric equality testers

  • Fixes #1831

• Fixed references to master in docs

• Allow spy throwError to throw an Object

  • Merges #1822 from @terencehonles

• Added missing periods to README

  • Merges #1828 from @dirkpuge

• Expose setSpec/SuiteProperty on interface

  • Merges #1820 from @johnjbarton

• Prevent undesired reloads when karma-jasmine-html-reporter is used

  • Merges #1807 from @parloti
  • Fixes #1775

• Correctly report spec and suite duration

  • Fixes #1676.

• Added jsdocs for MatchersUtil

• Allow the .callThrough spy strategy to call constructor functions without errors

  • Merges #1782 from @enelson
  • Fixes #1760

• Inject a per-runable pretty printer into MatchersUtil

  • Supports custom object formatters

• Include stack traces in unhandled promise rejection messages

• Describe the naming for the function it

  • Merges #1772 from @johnlinp

• Correctly extract error messages from stack traces that don’t start with Error

  • Merges #1776 from @vhermannitk
  • Fixes #1771

• Fixed objectContaining to not match when the expected is the empty object and the actual is a non-object

• Fixed toEqual(0, Number.MIN_VALUE) to fail instead of passing

  • Merges #1764 from @dubzzz

• Fixed comparison between ObjectContaining and non-objects on IE

• Provide better diffs for object graphs that include objectContaining

• Indent multiline failure messages in the output of withContext

  • This makes it easier to see where each failure message begins and ends.

• Report async expectations that complete after the runable completes

  • See #1752.

• Treat NodeJS assertion failures as expectation failures

  • Merges #1678 from @apla

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