Java JUnit: The method X is ambiguous for type Y

Question

I had some tests working fine. Then, I moved it to a different package, and am now getting errors. Here is the code:

import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.jgrapht.Graphs;
import org.jgrapht.WeightedGraph;
import org.jgrapht.graph.DefaultWeightedEdge;
import org.jgrapht.graph.SimpleWeightedGraph;
import org.junit.*; 

@Test
    public void testEccentricity() {
        WeightedGraph<String, DefaultWeightedEdge> g = generateSimpleCaseGraph();
        Map<String, Double> eccen = JGraphtUtilities.eccentricities(g);

        assertEquals(70, eccen.get("alpha"));
        assertEquals(80, eccen.get("l"));
        assertEquals(130, eccen.get("l-0"));
        assertEquals(100, eccen.get("l-1"));
        assertEquals(90, eccen.get("r"));
        assertEquals(120, eccen.get("r-0"));
        assertEquals(130, eccen.get("r-1"));
    }

The error message is this:

The method assertEquals(Object, Object) is ambiguous for the type JGraphtUtilitiesTest

How can I fix this? Why did this problem occur as I moved the class to a different package?

Answer 1

The method assertEquals(Object, Object) is ambiguous for the type ...

What this error means is that you're passing a double and and Double into a method that has two different signatures: assertEquals(Object, Object) and assertEquals(double, double) both of which could be called, thanks to autoboxing.

To avoid the ambiguity, make sure that you either call assertEquals(Object, Object) (by passing two Doubles) or assertEquals(double, double) (by passing two doubles).

So, in your case, you should use:

assertEquals(Double.valueOf(70), eccen.get("alpha"));

Or:

assertEquals(70.0d, eccen.get("alpha").doubleValue());