From 52f4344bceeece2e05d4a515bac46d7d8fcfb313 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Azhwani <13301425+azhwani@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 09:55:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-7057: How to convert CharSequence to String? (#14892)

---
 .../CharSequenceVsStringUnitTest.java         | 43 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-string-apis/src/test/java/com/baeldung/charsequence/CharSequenceVsStringUnitTest.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-string-apis/src/test/java/com/baeldung/charsequence/CharSequenceVsStringUnitTest.java
index aa15345bcb..13a0407a98 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-string-apis/src/test/java/com/baeldung/charsequence/CharSequenceVsStringUnitTest.java
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-string-apis/src/test/java/com/baeldung/charsequence/CharSequenceVsStringUnitTest.java
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 package com.baeldung.charsequence;
 
-import org.junit.Test;
-
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
+import org.junit.Test;
+
 public class CharSequenceVsStringUnitTest {
 
     @Test
@@ -44,4 +44,43 @@ public class CharSequenceVsStringUnitTest {
 
         assertEquals(firstAddressOfTest, secondAddressOfTest);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenCharSequenceAsString_whenConvertingUsingCasting_thenCorrect() {
+        String expected = "baeldung";
+        CharSequence charSequence = "baeldung";
+        String explicitCastedString = (String) charSequence;
+
+        assertEquals(expected, charSequence);
+        assertEquals(expected, explicitCastedString);
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = ClassCastException.class)
+    public void givenCharSequenceAsStringBuiler_whenConvertingUsingCasting_thenThrowException() {
+        CharSequence charSequence = new StringBuilder("baeldung");
+        String castedString = (String) charSequence;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenCharSequence_whenConvertingUsingToString_thenCorrect() {
+        String expected = "baeldung";
+        CharSequence charSequence1 = "baeldung";
+        CharSequence charSequence2 = new StringBuilder("baeldung");
+
+        assertEquals(expected, charSequence1.toString());
+        assertEquals(expected, charSequence2.toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenCharSequence_whenConvertingUsingValueOf_thenCorrect() {
+        String expected = "baeldung";
+        CharSequence charSequence1 = "baeldung";
+        CharSequence charSequence2 = new StringBuilder("baeldung");
+        CharSequence charSequence3 = null;
+
+        assertEquals(expected, String.valueOf(charSequence1));
+        assertEquals(expected, String.valueOf(charSequence2));
+        assertEquals("null", String.valueOf(charSequence3));
+    }
+
 }