Support for unordered snapsnot matching

[sazzer]

Hi there,

Is there any way to do snapshot matching where the order of object keys is not a concern? I know about sort_keys, but this just sorts the rendered JSON before comparing it to the snapshot which isn't quite the same thing.

In particular, I'm building a HAL implementation, and part of that I'm comparing the rendered output to the example from the spec. Except that the example isn't strictly ordered. This is in ways that don't actually affect anything, but it does mean that I can't just paste the example as-is into the snapshot and have it work.

Probably what I want is something like sort_keys but working on the snapshot as well as the rendered JSON.

Cheers

[mitsuhiko]

Insta doesn’t understand the snapshot format. It does a string compare so all normalization needs to happen ahead of time.

I’m not sure what a good solution I can provide here. Maybe you could build yourself a script that sorts the JSON and then you paste that in.