How to compare two types of Julia for unit testing?

General Usage
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e.g. I have my type

type Foo
  version::String
  id::String
  samplingRate::Int
  timeBuilt::String
  equations::Vector{Equation}
  exam::Vector{Exam}
end
2

Please clarify: do you want to compare types (eg typeof(something)) or their values? In the latter case, you should probably define Base.== (or something equivalent if it generally does not make sense and you just need it for unit testing), look at

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Their all values. Can you give a simple example @Tamas_Papp , please?

4

I think that that package is well-documented, but

using AutoHashEquals

@auto_hash_equals immutable Foo
    a
    b
end

Foo(1,2) == Foo(1,2) # true
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Thanks very much :slight_smile: now it’s clear and simple or all types must be with @auto_hash_equals (e.g. type equations, Exam …) What with this types?

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For types, you can use is (which can be typed as ≡), but most of the time you don’t need to do this; when I unit test for types I end up using Base.Test.@inferred most of the time.

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is is going/has gone away; in the future === is the canonical name for this function. However testing the type should be done with :: type assertions, not with typeof.