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Adjust heuristic for line-based versus byte-based diffing #299

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17 changes: 17 additions & 0 deletions cmp/compare_test.go
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Expand Up @@ -1403,6 +1403,23 @@ using the AllowUnexported option.`, "\n"),
[]byte("\xffoo"), []byte("foo"), []byte("barbaz"), []byte("added"), []byte("here"), []byte("hrmph\xff"),
},
reason: "should print text byte slices as strings except those with binary",
}, {
label: label + "/ManyEscapeCharacters",
x: `[
{"Base32": "NA======"},
{"Base32": "NBSQ===="},
{"Base32": "NBSWY==="},
{"Base32": "NBSWY3A="},
{"Base32": "NBSWY3DP"}
]`,
y: `[
{"Base32": "NB======"},
{"Base32": "NBSQ===="},
{"Base32": "NBSWY==="},
{"Base32": "NBSWY3A="},
{"Base32": "NBSWY3DP"}
]`,
reason: "should use line-based diffing since byte-based diffing is unreadable due to heavy amounts of escaping",
}}
}

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion cmp/report_slices.go
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Expand Up @@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ func (opts formatOptions) FormatDiffSlice(v *valueNode) textNode {
})
efficiencyLines := float64(esLines.Dist()) / float64(len(esLines))
efficiencyBytes := float64(esBytes.Dist()) / float64(len(esBytes))
isPureLinedText = efficiencyLines < 4*efficiencyBytes
quotedLength := len(strconv.Quote(sx + sy))
unquotedLength := len(sx) + len(sy)
escapeExpansionRatio := float64(quotedLength) / float64(unquotedLength)
isPureLinedText = efficiencyLines < 4*efficiencyBytes || escapeExpansionRatio > 1.1
}
}

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12 changes: 12 additions & 0 deletions cmp/testdata/diffs
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Expand Up @@ -1182,6 +1182,18 @@
+ {0x68, 0x72, 0x6d, 0x70, 0x68, 0xff},
}
>>> TestDiff/Reporter/SliceOfBytesBinary
<<< TestDiff/Reporter/ManyEscapeCharacters
(
"""
[
- {"Base32": "NA======"},
+ {"Base32": "NB======"},
{"Base32": "NBSQ===="},
{"Base32": "NBSWY==="},
... // 3 identical lines
"""
)
>>> TestDiff/Reporter/ManyEscapeCharacters
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This used to print:

  strings.Join({
  	"[\n\t{\"Base32\": \"N",
- 	"A",
+ 	"B",
  	"======\"},\n\t{\"Base32\": \"NBSQ====\"},\n\t{\"Base32\": \"NBSWY===\"},\n\t{\"B",
  	"ase32\": \"NBSWY3A=\"},\n\t{\"Base32\": \"NBSWY3DP\"}\n]",
  }, "")

<<< TestDiff/EmbeddedStruct/ParentStructA/Inequal
teststructs.ParentStructA{
privateStruct: teststructs.privateStruct{
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