&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : "alesj" wrote : | | So if our returned MetaData is non-Serializable, we should throw exception (since we want all our MD to be serializable, right?)? | | | | Correct. | Ok, for MetaData there is no problem. What do we do with JavaBeans (which now fail - since with wildcard test's we use plain java.lang.Object)? anonymous wrote : | This is a candidate for AbstractTestCase in the jboss-test project. | | | | /** | | * Check we have the expected type | | * | | * @param <T> the expected type | | * @param o the object | | * @param expectedType the excepted class of the exception | | * @return the expected type | | */ | | protected <T> T assertInstanceOf(Object o, Class<T> expectedType) | | { | | return assertInstanceOf(o, expectedType, true); | | } | | | | /** | | * Check we have the expected type | | * | | * @param <T> the expected type | | * @param o the object | | * @param expectedType the excepted class of the exception | | * @param allowNull whether the object can be null | | * @return the expected type | | */ | | protected <T> T assertInstanceOf(Object o, Class<T> expectedType, boolean allowNull) | | { | | if (expectedType == null) | | fail("Null expectedType"); | | | | if (o == null && allowNull) | | return null; | | | | try | | { | | return expectedType.cast(o); | | } | | catch (ClassCastException e) | | { | | fail("Object " + o + " of class " + o.getClass().getName() + " is not an instanceof " + expectedType.getName()); | | } | | } | | Cool. I added this code to test project. Will use it in MC once I update test snapshot. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4005296#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...