DiffUtils#diff(List<String>,List<String) output does not provide too much information

[Simón Emmanuel Gutiérrez Brida]

Following the provided example, I would expect an output where at least three changes were detected. The obtained output is:

[ChangeDelta, position: 0, lines: [This is the first line, This would be the second line, And this is the third line] to [This would be the first line, This would be second line, And tis is the last line of the text, Another one bytes the dust]]

Is this the expected output? I was expecting something more akin to the output of the diff command or the one obtained when using git diff. Is there a way to get a more usable output?

Provided example:

import com.github.difflib.DiffUtils;
import com.github.difflib.patch.AbstractDelta;
import com.github.difflib.patch.Patch;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] stringA = new String[] {"This is the first line", "This would be the second line","And this is the third line"};
        String[] stringB = new String[] {"This would be the first line", "This would be second line", "And tis is the last line of the text", "Another one bytes the dust"};

        List<String> original = Arrays.asList(stringA);
        List<String> revised = Arrays.asList(stringB);

        // Compute diff. Get the Patch object. Patch is the container for computed deltas.
        Patch<String> patch = DiffUtils.diff(original, revised);

        for (AbstractDelta<String> delta : patch.getDeltas()) {
            System.out.println(delta);
        }
    }

}

[Tobias]

Maybe you need to use DiffUtils.diffInline or go to the more sophisticated DiffRowGenerator.