Ignoring parameters when comparing snapshot to serialized object

[irahorecka]

How to ignore parameters when comparing snapshot to serialized object?

My collaborators and I naturally run tests on different machines, therefore, classes / functions that have file path parameters will have different values when taking snapshots. How do I deliberately ignore this parameter (e.g., filename) altogether? I would like one centralized snapshot that can be compared without the comparison of file paths, if possible.

I've tried using snapshot(exclude=props("filename")) (filename is the parameter to ignore) to no avail.

[yedpodtrzitko]

it looks like filename is not a property in the root of the snapshot, which is why it's ignored. You have to specify the path to the property.

Or, instead of excluding the property, you can use matcher to check just the value type instead of checking the actual value:

snapshot(
    matcher=path_type({
        "path.to.filename.property": (str,), # the value is expected to be `str`
    })
)