From 3360b8c16fc5d11e1f5435f14b516708f18caf9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Onsi Fakhouri <onsijoe@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:19:24 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] tweak truncation message

---
 format/format.go      | 7 +++----
 format/format_test.go | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/format/format.go b/format/format.go
index 75f9be1a3..6e78c391d 100644
--- a/format/format.go
+++ b/format/format.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import (
 var MaxDepth = uint(10)
 
 // MaxLength of the string representation of an object.
-// If MaxLength is set to 0, the Object will not be truncted.
+// If MaxLength is set to 0, the Object will not be truncated.
 var MaxLength = 4000
 
 /*
@@ -171,8 +171,7 @@ func findFirstMismatch(a, b string) int {
 	return 0
 }
 
-const truncateHelpText = `the very very long object here that goes on forever and ever but then gets trunc....
-
+const truncateHelpText = `
 Gomega truncated this representation as it exceeds 'format.MaxLength'.
 Consider having the object provide a custom 'GomegaStringer' representation
 or adjust the parameters in Gomega's 'format' package.
@@ -191,7 +190,7 @@ func truncateLongStrings(s string) string {
 			break
 		}
 
-		sb.WriteString("\n")
+		sb.WriteString("...\n")
 		sb.WriteString(truncateHelpText)
 
 		return sb.String()
diff --git a/format/format_test.go b/format/format_test.go
index 1c0bf4d74..967349d2d 100644
--- a/format/format_test.go
+++ b/format/format_test.go
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ var _ = Describe("Format", func() {
 
 			It("should print out an indented formatted representation of the value and the message, and trucate it when too long", func() {
 				tooLong := strings.Repeat("s", MaxLength+1)
-				tooLongResult := strings.Repeat("s", MaxLength) + "\n" + TruncatedHelpText()
+				tooLongResult := strings.Repeat("s", MaxLength) + "...\n" + TruncatedHelpText()
 				Expect(Message(tooLong, "to be truncated")).Should(Equal("Expected\n    <string>: " + tooLongResult + "\nto be truncated"))
 			})