Pretty print assertion failures in tests #79001

de-vri-es · 2020-11-12T20:55:03Z

This PR aims to allow the test framework to pretty-print assertion failures with colors and a more readable format than the current panic messages. It is meant to work towards #44838 (without actually modifying assert!() itself at this point).

The PR adds a new extra_info field to PanicInfo. Currently, extra_info is an enum that can only contain &AssertInfo, but it is meant to be extendable with different variants in the future. It could potentially be used to record details for other sources of panics too. The panic handler in std ensures that the extra_info is also passed to the panic hook unmodified.

I also looked into passing the AssertInfo as panic payload rather than a new field on PanicInfo. However, casting an &AssertInfo to &dyn Any would require AssertInfo: 'static, but it borrows the evaluated expressions.

The PR adds an new unstable --pretty-print-assertions flag to test binaries to enable the pretty printing. When used, the test runner installs a panic hook that does the pretty-printing. The printing is done with print!()/println!() to ensure the output is still captured by the test framework. That means that the color codes need to be included in the print!() calls, which is only possible with terminals that support ANSI color codes. Support for ANSI color codes is checked before enabling them.

For now, the PR only modifies assert_eq!() and assert_ne!(), since they're much easier. Next up would be assert!() parsing the input expression and generating the proper AssertInfo for the panic.

And now some pictures!

Without pretty-printing:

The pretty printing is hidden behind an unstable command line flag to allow more time to tweak the format, and of course to actually implement expression parsing in assert!().

I imagine there is a lot of bike-shedding potential on the exact output format. Initially I wanted to go with the format used by assert2, but I figured that might be too opinionated.

r? @m-ou-se

m-ou-se

Thanks for working on this!

Here are some first review comments:

library/core/src/panic.rs

library/core/src/panic/assert_info.rs

library/core/src/panicking.rs

library/term/src/win.rs

m-ou-se · 2020-11-12T21:40:24Z

src/test/ui/issues/issue-59488.rs

@@ -31,4 +31,5 @@ fn main() {
    //~^ ERROR binary operation `==` cannot be applied to type `fn(usize) -> Foo {Foo::Bar}` [E0369]
    //~| ERROR `fn(usize) -> Foo {Foo::Bar}` doesn't implement `Debug` [E0277]
    //~| ERROR `fn(usize) -> Foo {Foo::Bar}` doesn't implement `Debug` [E0277]
+    //~| ERROR `fn(usize) -> Foo {Foo::Bar}` doesn't implement `Debug` [E0277]


This now duplciates an error. Can that be avoided?

I don't think so. The expression is still used to create the same panic message as before, but now also used to form a &dyn Debug in the AssertInfo.

I'd be happy to avoid this if possible though.

hmm, maybe it can be done by using the same &dyn Debug also for the panic message. Not sure if that is desirable though.

I modified the macro to assign left_val and right_val to a &dyn Debug once, and then use that for the rest of the code. The extra error is gone that way.

Interestingly, the compiler now only gives an error once per type. So if left and right are different types (and both don't implement Debug), it gives an error for both. If they are the same type, only one error is generated. This seems like nice behaviour, so I added a UI test for it.

library/core/src/macros/mod.rs

m-ou-se · 2020-11-12T21:57:33Z

library/test/src/pretty_print_assertion.rs

+
+fn print_pretty_binary_assertion(assert: &BinaryAssertion<'_>) {
+    eprintln!(
+        "{bold}Assertion:{reset}\n  {cyan}{left} {bold}{blue}{op}{reset} {yellow}{right}{reset}",


What about the precedence of the comparison operator and any operators in the expressions on either side?

assert_eq!(true && false, false || true) might give surprising results (especially if colors are not enabled).

Yeah, good point. Putting parenthesis around the expressions is possible, or it can be split further into separate lines for left and right.

I'll probably try out both to see how they look.

m-ou-se · 2020-11-12T22:56:10Z

library/core/src/macros/mod.rs

+                    // The reborrows below are intentional. Without them, the stack slot for the
+                    // borrow is initialized even before the values are compared, leading to a
+                    // noticeable slow down.
+                    $crate::panicking::start_panic(


Using a new panicking function here means clippy will no longer recognize this panic. Once rust-lang/rust-clippy#6310 lands, this should be easy to fix by adding start_panic to the list of panic functions it recognizes.

This was fixed in #79145, so you just need to update the functions clippy recognizes.

library/test/src/lib.rs

src/tools/compiletest/src/main.rs

a1phyr · 2020-11-18T19:03:03Z

I tried to enhance assert_eq! before (clearly not as good as you did, though), and it had a very bad impact on build times (see #73968).

I think we should do a perf run on this.

de-vri-es · 2020-11-18T21:46:34Z

I tried to enhance assert_eq! before (clearly not as good as you did, though), and it had a very bad impact on build times (see #73968).

I think we should do a perf run on this.

Eep, if that was already bad I'm a little worried what this will do. I'm not sure how to do a perf run, but that sounds like a good idea.

In the end I do think that increasing compile times is unavoidable for RFC 2011. Maybe it would be a solution to hide the new macro implementation behind #[cfg(test)], or possibly something more granular.

jyn514 · 2020-11-18T21:49:26Z

@bors try @rust-timer queue

rust-timer · 2020-11-18T21:49:27Z

Awaiting bors try build completion

bors · 2020-11-18T21:49:37Z

⌛ Trying commit f56df5fdb6dc062411b4254f26989e7a1555b145 with merge c7bcb4ce327047165c733e403fbe3d345c7376a0...

bors · 2020-11-18T22:39:05Z

☀️ Try build successful - checks-actions
Build commit: c7bcb4ce327047165c733e403fbe3d345c7376a0 (c7bcb4ce327047165c733e403fbe3d345c7376a0)

rust-timer · 2020-11-18T22:39:07Z

Queued c7bcb4ce327047165c733e403fbe3d345c7376a0 with parent 8d2d001, future comparison URL.

rust-timer · 2020-11-19T01:55:25Z

Finished benchmarking try commit (c7bcb4ce327047165c733e403fbe3d345c7376a0): comparison url.

Benchmarking this pull request likely means that it is perf-sensitive, so we're automatically marking it as not fit for rolling up. Please note that if the perf results are neutral, you should likely undo the rollup=never given below by specifying rollup- to bors.

Importantly, though, if the results of this run are non-neutral do not roll this PR up -- it will mask other regressions or improvements in the roll up.

@bors rollup=never
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JohnCSimon · 2021-10-03T07:18:46Z

Ping again from triage:
@de-vri-es Unfortunately there's another merge conflict. Can you please rebase the branch again?

jakoschiko · 2021-10-10T20:16:39Z

I'll try to resolve the conflicts.

bors · 2021-10-20T01:43:24Z

☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #90067) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

The assertion details are added as a new enum field, allowing for future extensions with different information for other sources of panics. For example, `.unwrap()` could extend the enum to store a `&dyn Error` in the panic info. The panic handler in `std` passes the additional info unmodified to the panic hook.

Co-authored-by: Mara Bos <m-ou.se@m-ou.se>

And use a comma to separate arguments of `assert_eq` and `assert_ne`. This has two advantages: * The printed text more closely matches the actual source code. * It avoids changing the meaning of $left == $right if $left or $right contain operators themselves.

`GetConsoleMode` was declared twice with different signatures. The signatures have contained different definitions of `HANDLE`.

bors · 2021-10-27T19:04:23Z

☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #90273) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

jakoschiko · 2021-11-14T11:54:58Z

It seems that the current conflict cannot be resolved by simple rebasing. The problem is the ongoing constification of panic_fmt.

master:

#[rustc_do_not_const_check] // hooked by const-eval
pub const fn panic_fmt(fmt: fmt::Arguments<'_>) -> ! {

feature branch:

pub fn panic_fmt(fmt: fmt::Arguments<'_>) -> ! {
    panic_description(PanicDescription::Message(&fmt))
}

fn panic_description(description: PanicDescription<'_>) -> ! {

I think it would be necessary to make both functions const and change the const-eval hook. But it would be better to wait until the other work on panic_fmt has been completed.

@de-vri-es @m-ou-se
Maybe the time has come to close this PR.

JohnCSimon · 2022-02-13T00:44:49Z

Ping from triage:
@de-vri-es

jakoschiko commented on Nov 14, 2021
Maybe the time has come to close this PR.

Seems like this PR has stalled. What would you like to do?

Dylan-DPC · 2022-03-03T20:30:51Z

Closing this pr due to inactivity. Thanks for taking the time to contribute.

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Improve assert_eq! and assert_ne! #79100

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Add function to test if terminal supports ANSI color codes.

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Pretty-print assertion failures in test with unstable flag.

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Mark panic::ExtraInfo as non-exhaustive.

9596fce

Co-authored-by: Mara Bos <m-ou.se@m-ou.se>

Add more documentation to AssertInfo and related types.

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Replace get_stdout_handle() with io::stdout().as_raw_handle().

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Do not show fake operator in pretty-printed assert_matches failure.

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Try to improve performance by reducing the size of involved types

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Unify signatures of GetConsoleMode by changing HANDLE to c_void

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`GetConsoleMode` was declared twice with different signatures. The signatures have contained different definitions of `HANDLE`.

Bless test output

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