IDiff should just implement ToString()
SebastianStehle opened this issue · comments
New Feature Proposal
Description
IDiff should just implement ToString() instead of DebuggerDisplay.
Background
I would like to render all diffs in my unit tests but it would be a lot of unnecessary effort because IDiff does not have a string representation.
I dont necessarily see anything bad about moving the contents of the DebuggerDisplay attributes on the IDiff types into a ToString() overload. But I am unsure of we can come up with "the one way" to print out diffs that will suite all peoples needs, so I am not sure the value is there.
In bUnit, I have the following method for printing out diffs from a comparison during testing. Perhaps you an use that as inspiration for your project: https://github.com/bUnit-dev/bUnit/blob/main/src/bunit.web/Asserting/HtmlEqualException.cs#L28
This helps as well :)
Great. I am going to close this issue in that case.