Question

Can you tell me if there’s a way to dis- and enable junit.framework.Assert commands inline to ignore them?

Code example just to show what i mean:

junitOff(); // first method I need help with
assertTrue(false); //would normally cause an AssertionError
junitOn(); // second method I need help with
System.out.println("Broke through asserTrue without Error")

I know it would be possible to use try/catch but that’s not what I’m looking for because I can not go on with execution in the line after the assert…

Answer 1

I don’t see any way to do this. Looking at the junit code you see:

static public void assertTrue(String message, boolean condition) {
    if (!condition)
        fail(message);
}

And fail() is:

static public void fail(String message) {
    throw new AssertionError(message == null ? "" : message);
}

I see no ways to turn on a switch or otherwise disable it from throwing an AssertionError.

For the record, if you are talking about the assert Java primitive then that can be disabled but only at compile-time with the -ea switch.