toThrow assertion message includes Error name, but does not match on it

[mullen3]

🐛 Bug Report

Not sure if this is necessarily a bug, but definitely a footgun/confusing message. When expecting a function toThrow, jest outputs the Error name in the test failure message, but does not actually match on the name. Like this:

Expected the function to throw an error matching:
  /Name: message/
Instead, it threw:
  Name: message

To Reproduce

https://repl.it/repls/IroncladCreativeForm

Expected behavior

Either match on the name as well as the message, or strip out the name from the test failure report.

[rickhanlonii]

@mullen3 thanks for reporting, this makes sense to me, what do you think @SimenB?

[SimenB]

Stripping out .name makes sense, doesn't it?

[rickhanlonii]

Makes sense to me, @mullen3 interested in putting in your first Jest PR?

[mullen3]

Thanks @SimenB and @rickhanlonii. Which solution do we think is better? Looks like my repro is gone now 😢and I kind of forget the exact shape of the issue. Nevermind I just forgot how to use that site.

[rickhanlonii]

I think as @SimenB said we should strip out the name from the test failure report

[olivierbeaulieu]

It seems like this issue has been resolved in #7621

[thymikee]

Yup, that should fix it

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