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assert: respect assert.doesNotThrow message.
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Special handling to detect when user has supplied a custom message.
Added a test for user message.
When testing if `actual` value is an error use
`util.isError` instead of `instanceof`.

Fixes: #2385
PR-URL: #2407
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
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Ilya Shaisultanov authored and Myles Borins committed May 18, 2016
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion lib/assert.js
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Expand Up @@ -330,7 +330,14 @@ function _throws(shouldThrow, block, expected, message) {
fail(actual, expected, 'Missing expected exception' + message);
}

if (!shouldThrow && expectedException(actual, expected)) {
const userProvidedMessage = typeof message === 'string';
const isUnwantedException = !shouldThrow && util.isError(actual);
const isUnexpectedException = !shouldThrow && actual && !expected;

if ((isUnwantedException &&
userProvidedMessage &&
expectedException(actual, expected)) ||
isUnexpectedException) {
fail(actual, expected, 'Got unwanted exception' + message);
}

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions test/parallel/test-assert.js
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Expand Up @@ -321,6 +321,11 @@ assert.throws(function() {assert.ifError(new Error('test error'));});
assert.doesNotThrow(function() {assert.ifError(null);});
assert.doesNotThrow(function() {assert.ifError();});

assert.throws(() => {
assert.doesNotThrow(makeBlock(thrower, Error), 'user message');
}, /Got unwanted exception. user message/,
'a.doesNotThrow ignores user message');

// make sure that validating using constructor really works
threw = false;
try {
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