Why does this hamcrest matcher work in eclipse but not outside?

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Hamcrest's hasItems

I've written a test using a hamcrest matcher that looks like:

@Test
public void testGenericsIsEmpty() {
    List<String> myStrings = new LinkedList<String>();
    assertThat((Collection)myStrings,is(empty()));
}

This works when I compile in Eclipse, but not outside of Eclipse. My maven project uses the eclipse compiler, so it compiles outside of Eclipse when using maven, but if I use the standard java compiler, it doesn't compile.

I get the error message

cannot find symbol method assertThat(java.util.Collection,org.hamcrest.Matcher>)

I'm using junit 4.10 and hamcrest 1.3.RC2.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092981/hamcrests-hasitems — Suraj Chandran, Jun 18 '12 at 18:43

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '12 at 20:11

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Have you already tried this:

assertThat(myString, is(Matchers.<String>empty()));

answered Jun 18 '12 at 20:11

Stefan Birkner

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