Espresso withText in TextView Doesn't match selected View

Question

I'm running into a odd test failure with Espresso. The following is to test a TextView in a displayed Dialog. I get the following error:

   com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.base.DefaultFailureHandler$AssertionFailedWithCauseError: 'with string from resource id: <2131099772>' doesn't match the selected view.
Expected: with string from resource id: <2131099772>[my_content] value: Test Content Available
Got: "TextView{id=2131296340, res-name=dialog_content, visibility=VISIBLE, width=620, height=38, has-focus=false, has-focusable=false, has-window-focus=true, is-clickable=false, is-enabled=true, is-focused=false, is-focusable=false, is-layout-requested=false, is-selected=false, root-is-layout-requested=false, has-input-connection=false, x=0.0, y=0.0, text=Test Content Available, input-type=0, ime-target=false}"

at dalvik.system.VMStack.getThreadStackTrace(Native Method)
at java.lang.Thread.getStackTrace(Thread.java:579)
at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.base.DefaultFailureHandler.getUserFriendlyError(DefaultFailureHandler.java:69)
at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.base.DefaultFailureHandler.handle(DefaultFailureHandler.java:40)
at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.ViewInteraction.runSynchronouslyOnUiThread(ViewInteraction.java:159)
at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.ViewInteraction.check(ViewInteraction.java:133)
at com.myapp.testContentDetails(FPATest.java:109)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestCase.runMethod(InstrumentationTestCase.java:214)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestCase.runTest(InstrumentationTestCase.java:199)
at android.test.ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2.runTest(ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2.java:192)
at android.test.AndroidTestRunner.runTest(AndroidTestRunner.java:191)
at android.test.AndroidTestRunner.runTest(AndroidTestRunner.java:176)
at android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner.onStart(InstrumentationTestRunner.java:554)
at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.testrunner.GoogleInstrumentationTestRunner.onStart(GoogleInstrumentationTestRunner.java:167)
at android.app.Instrumentation$InstrumentationThread.run(Instrumentation.java:1701)
Caused by: junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: 'with string from resource id: <2131099772>' doesn't match the selected view.
Expected: with string from resource id: <2131099772>[my_content] value: Test Content Available
Got: "TextView{id=2131296340, res-name=dialog_content, visibility=VISIBLE, width=620, height=38, has-focus=false, has-focusable=false, has-window-focus=true, is-clickable=false, is-enabled=true, is-focused=false, is-focusable=false, is-layout-requested=false, is-selected=false, root-is-layout-requested=false, has-input-connection=false, x=0.0, y=0.0, text=Test Content Available, input-type=0, ime-target=false}"

at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.matcher.ViewMatchers.assertThat(ViewMatchers.java:789)
at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.assertion.ViewAssertions$2.check(ViewAssertions.java:76)
at com.google.android.apps.common.testing.ui.espresso.ViewInteraction$2.run(ViewInteraction.java:145)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:422)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5081)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:781)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

So clearly, the view is found, and in it's details, you can see text= the value I'm expecting. Yet it says doesn't match. It's run with the following test statement

onView(withId(R.id.dialog_content)).check(
                matches(withText(R.string.my_content)));

I tried doing it with the following statement as well, but got a NoMatchingViewException, even through the View shows in the view hierarchy of the exception.

onView(withText(R.string.my_content)).check(
                matches(isDisplayed()));

Any help on why this would fail? Its worth noting i'm able to withText() isDisplayed() on a sibling field in the dialog.

Answer 1

This answer was created based on @haffax's comment above.

/**
 * Original source from Espresso library, modified to handle spanned fields
 * 
 * Returns a matcher that matches a descendant of {@link TextView} that is
 * displaying the string associated with the given resource id.
 * 
 * @param resourceId
 *            the string resource the text view is expected to hold.
 */
public static Matcher<View> withText(final int resourceId) {

    return new BoundedMatcher<View, TextView>(TextView.class) {
        private String resourceName = null;
        private String expectedText = null;

        @Override
        public void describeTo(Description description) {
            description.appendText("with string from resource id: ");
            description.appendValue(resourceId);
            if (null != this.resourceName) {
                description.appendText("[");
                description.appendText(this.resourceName);
                description.appendText("]");
            }
            if (null != this.expectedText) {
                description.appendText(" value: ");
                description.appendText(this.expectedText);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean matchesSafely(TextView textView) {
            if (null == this.expectedText) {
                try {
                    this.expectedText = textView.getResources().getString(
                            resourceId);
                    this.resourceName = textView.getResources()
                            .getResourceEntryName(resourceId);
                } catch (Resources.NotFoundException ignored) {
                    /*
                     * view could be from a context unaware of the resource
                     * id.
                     */
                }
            }
            if (null != this.expectedText) {
                return this.expectedText.equals(textView.getText()
                        .toString());
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        }
    };
}