[robobun]

Merge order: with #37764 and #47611, any order compiles. This PR reads the field output_length of Formatter, and so does #47611. #37764 changes the type of that field and keeps its name since 05e6241. Git still reports conflicts with #37764 in three test files, and with #47816 in the multi-line string arm and two test files. See Merge order in Notes.

Problem

• A failing toEqual prints a nested multi-line string as "stderr": , the string from column 0, and a lone ,. A nested Map, Set and String object print alike. No issue reports it.
• The cause is Formatter::print_as (src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs): these arms write the line breaks of a top-level value at every depth. Matcher diffs use this snapshot printer since Update bun:test diff #21158 (Bun 1.2.20).

Fix

• has_snapshot_line_breaks() gates the nine writes. A failure message prints a nested value on the line of its key or element.
• Correct because pretty-format 29.7.0 prints the same text in 64 of 64 cases (main: 20). Snapshot text stays: 108 snapshots from Bun 1.4.4 match byte for byte.
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/printing/diffexample.test.ts (19 of 24 tests fail on main), then test/js/bun/test/ and test/cli/test/.
• Self-reviewed: 24 concerns raised, 21 addressed. Not taken (see Notes): escaping ", gating Event fields, changing depth 0.

Background

• DiffFormatter::new prints both values of a matcher diff with the snapshot printer, then diffs the lines.
• Snapshot text is stored, and bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 pins this layout there as Bun's own format. Only a failure message has an output_length, which the predicate reads.
• Considered the new layout in snapshots, behind the older-Bun check: every old snapshot with a nested Map or Set prints twice per run.

Downsides

• A stored failure message that shows such a value changes (toThrowErrorMatchingSnapshot()), with no fallback.
• expect(['x",\n "y']).toEqual(["x", "y"]) now shows no changed line: the printer does not escape ".
• A snapshot assertion executes 11 more instructions per printed string (+0.1%). Release .text: +0 bytes.

Notes

Merge order

• has_snapshot_line_breaks() reads the field output_length of Formatter. bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 (open) changes that field from a byte count to its OutputBudget. Since 05e6241 it keeps the name, so the read compiles with and without bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764.
• Before that commit bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 named the field budget. A build of this PR, bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 and bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611 together then failed with E0609 (no field output_length) at the read.
• bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611 (open) reads the same field in is_failure_message(). Git merges it with this PR with no conflict.
• Built together on main 2596ac5 (debug build with ASAN, linux x64): this head (e6f91d4), bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 at 05e6241, bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611 at bdfd3bf and bun:test: toEqual reads a Proxy around a Set or a Map through the Proxy #47888 at f230e22. The build has no error.
• Git reports conflicts between this head and bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 in three test files: expect-extend.test.js, diffexample.fixture.ts and diffexample.test.ts. Both PRs add tests at the same places, so the PR that merges second needs a rebase.
• Both PRs declare a top-level const calledWith in diffexample.test.ts. Git merges the two declarations with no conflict, and the file then fails to load: "calledWith" has already been declared. The helper of bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 takes any number of arguments, so it serves both sets of tests.
• Tests of the merged tree after that resolution: diffexample.test.ts (54 pass), expect-extend.test.js, dom-nodes.test.ts and expect.test.js pass. No text that this PR pins changes under the other PRs. snapshot.test.ts has 173 pass and 1 skip. Its other 7 tests are error snapshots, which needs color, and six fixture tests that need more than 5 seconds on a debug build. They pass with FORCE_COLOR=1 and with --timeout 120000.
• Together with bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764, expect(['x",\n "y']).toEqual(["x", "y"]) prints the array once and Compared values have no visual difference.. That is the second downside above. With bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 the message ends with that sentence.
• bun:test: show a carriage return as ␍ in the diff of a failing matcher #47816 (open) changes the same condition in the multi-line string arm: a failure message then keeps a \r as it is. Git reports conflicts with this head in pretty_format.rs, diffexample.test.ts and dom-nodes.test.ts. One test here pins "a\rb" as two lines in a failure message, and bun:test: show a carriage return as ␍ in the diff of a failing matcher #47816 changes that text. The two PRs are not built together.
• Which PR merges first is a maintainer's choice.

Text

expect({ stdout: "hello\n", stderr: "warn: x\n", exitCode: 1 }).toEqual({ stdout: "hello\n", stderr: "", exitCode: 0 }) on Bun 1.2.20, 1.4.4 and main:

  {
-   "exitCode": 0,
-   "stderr": "",
+   "exitCode": 1,
+   "stderr": 
+ "warn: x
+ "
+ ,
    "stdout": 
  "hello
  "
  ,
  }

- Expected  - 2
+ Received  + 5

On this branch:

  {
-   "exitCode": 0,
-   "stderr": "",
+   "exitCode": 1,
+   "stderr": "warn: x
+ ",
    "stdout": "hello
  ",
  }

- Expected  - 2
+ Received  + 3

expect({ s: new Set([1, 2]), a: 1 }).toEqual({ s: new Set([1, 3]), a: 1 }) on main, then on this branch:

  {
    "a": 1,
    "s":   
  Set {
      1,
-     3,
+     2,
    }
  ,
  }

  {
    "a": 1,
    "s": Set {
      1,
-     3,
+     2,
    },
  }

• Bun 1.2.19 printed both on the line of the key, with the console.log formatter.
• The shape expect({ stdout, stderr, exitCode }).toEqual(...) is in 706 test files of this repo.
• A mock call prints its arguments as an array. So toHaveBeenCalledWith("a\nb") has the defect with no nesting in the test.
• With AGENT=1 a diff keeps one unchanged line next to a changed one. For users: new Set(["bob"]) against new Set(["rob"]), the hunk starts with Set { on main and with "users": Set { on this branch.

The nine writes

• Map: the line break before the name and the one after }.
• Set: the same two, and the indentation before the name. An empty Set and a WeakSet have the indentation too.
• String object: the line break after }, and } without its indentation.
• Multi-line string: the line break before the opening quote and the one after the closing quote.
• Promise: the line break before it after 80 columns. The count does not reset between the members of an array, a Set or a Map. In a diff the break moved with the length of an earlier member and marked equal entries as changed.

Measurements (main 3f3a9ff against this branch, linux x64)

• Stored snapshot bytes changed: 0. Nine values in six positions, through toMatchSnapshot() and toMatchInlineSnapshot(), give 108 snapshots. Released Bun 1.4.4 (38afee6) and this branch write the same bytes (cmp -l). With CI=true this branch passes all 108 on the files that 1.4.4 wrote.
• The older-Bun check is not entered: the size getter of a nested Set runs once per snapshot assertion on both builds.
• Failure text equal to pretty-format 29.7.0 (printBasicPrototype: false): 64 of 64 on this branch, 20 of 64 on main. The cases are 8 values (Set, Map, empty Set, empty Map, WeakSet, WeakMap, "a\nb", new String("ab")) in 8 positions (top level, object value, array element, only array element, Set member, Map key, Map value, four levels deep). A Promise after 90 columns: 5 of 5, main 0 of 5. No value holds " or \: pretty-format escapes them and this printer does not.
• Top-level failure text that differs from main: 0 of 13 kinds (object, array, typed array, Buffer, Map, Set, empty Set, String object, multi-line string, Error, JSX element, expect.objectContaining, expect.toSatisfy with a two-line message).
• Failure message of the Set case above: 16 lines on main, 14 on this branch. Of { out: "a\nb" } against { out: "a\nc" }: 13 and 11.
• Existing assertions changed: 1 (example 2 of diffexample.test.ts, the nested multi-line string). Docs lines changed: 0.
• Release .text: 110,632,729 bytes in both builds. The functions of this printer: 128,969 bytes on main, 128,956 on this branch.
• Instructions per call, user space, BUN_JSC_useJIT=0, minimum of 5 interleaved runs, spread of the runs at most 5 per call. The counts come from perf_event_open. valgrind is not on the machine and could not be installed.
  • toMatchInlineSnapshot() of { a: 1 }: 11,017 on main, +0.0.
  • of { a: "x" }: 11,577, +10.7. The source adds no work for a string without a line break. The function of the string arm is 81 bytes smaller, and the compiler inlines the UTF-8 check of write_all at fewer places in it.
  • of { s: new Set([1]), t: "a\nb" }: 19,749, +53.1.
  • failing toEqual of { a: 1 } against { a: 2 }: 26,388, -0.6.
  • failing toEqual of the Set case above: 45,855, -1,029.

Not changed

Not done: a tracking issue. This PR is the record.

• Snapshot text, and so the diff of a snapshot mismatch. Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 lists "a nested Map starts at column 0" among the old bugs that stay in snapshot text. bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 pins it in snapshot.test.ts ("Bun's own format puts line breaks around a nested Map or Set"). Two new entries in "most types", written by Bun 1.4.4, pin the stored text of the arms that this PR touches.
• A value at depth 0 that is not the whole value. The operand of a top-level expect.stringContaining("a\nb") still prints after a line break, and so does a multi-line string as the key of a top-level JSX element. indent == 0 cannot tell them from the whole value. The object of a top-level expect.objectContaining and an array as the key have the same break from the Object and Array arms. A test pins the StringContaining text.
• A Proxy, an arguments object and a URLSearchParams inside another value (the Tag::JSON arm). They print as JSON.stringify text with } at column 0. A gate of a line break cannot fix that: the value has to print through the Object or Array arm.
• The fields of a MessageEvent and an ErrorEvent end with , and a line break. Every value has that trailing space.
• An object with a Symbol.toStringTag prints its tag, then its class name (Tag Tagged {). PropertyIterator::handle_first_property writes both.
• A JSX prop can now print directly after the value before it (<div a="x / y"b=2 />). The JSX arm writes no separator before the last prop (Print the separator between JSX props from what was printed, not the property index #38957). The stray line break hid that.
• A multi-line message of expect.toSatisfy(fn, "a\nb") inside another value. It prints through print_snapshot.

Self-review items not taken

• Escape " and \ in a nested multi-line string. It removes the second downside, but the printer then escapes some strings and not others. jest-diff escapes every string. That is a decision of its own. A test.failing case records the collision.
• Gate the trailing space of Event fields. It is not a line break around a nested value.
• Remove indent == 0 from the predicate, so that the operand of a top-level matcher changes too. This PR leaves all text at depth 0 as it is. The break helps there: expect("a\nb").toEqual(expect.stringContaining("a\nc")) prints - StringContaining , then "a as an unchanged line. Without the clause the Object and Array arms still break at depth 0.

Related

• Related to Bun/Jest Snapshot Mismatch #40656. That report is the snapshot side, and its repro passes on main since bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833.
• bun test: print nested multiline strings inline in snapshots, like jest #40661 (closed) changed the string writes for snapshots too.
• bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611 adds is_failure_message(), the same test of output_length. This branch reads the field in one helper at another place in the file. A trial merge of the two heads has no conflict.
• Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 moves this printer into the console.log formatter. The gate moves with the arms.
• Considered the pretty-format port that bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 added for Jest and Vitest snapshots as the printer of matcher diffs. It has this layout, but it also changes the text of functions, classes, regular expressions and symbol keys.

Suites

bun bd test on the 90 test files of test/js/bun/test/ and the 24 of test/cli/test/. The debug build of main fails the same tests: error snapshots in snapshot.test.ts (it needs color), one test of test-aot.test.ts, and 5,000 ms timeouts in snapshot.test.ts and test-environment.test.ts.

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[robobun]

Status: fix is in this PR (#47748). It needs a maintainer review.

How to reproduce on main (and on every release since 1.2.20):

import { test, expect } from "bun:test";
test("nested values in a diff", () => {
  expect({ s: new Set([1, 2]), out: "a\nb" }).toEqual({ s: new Set([1, 3]), out: "a\nc" });
});

bun test prints "s": with trailing spaces, then Set { at the indent of the outer value, then } and a , on a line of its own. The string prints the same way. On this branch the Set and the string start on the line of their key.

test/js/bun/test/printing/diffexample.test.ts has the cases: 19 of its 24 tests fail on main and all pass on this branch.

CI: one test is red, and it is not from this diff. test/aot/heap-limit.test.ts fails on debian 13 aarch64 in builds 138911 and 138948. There, a compiled program runs out of address space and ends with memory allocation of 8 bytes failed. The test expects the FATAL: out of memory message. The same test fails the same way on four other branches (builds 138707, 138716, 138755 and 138769).

Build 138948 is complete: 187 of 188 jobs passed. No test of this PR failed on any platform. The branch is on main 2596ac5.

[robobun]

^{Updated 8:02 PM PT - Nov 8th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit ca3ad8d has 1 failures in Build #138948 (All Failures):

• test/aot/heap-limit.test.ts - pid 18831 segmentation fault on 🐧 13 aarch64

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That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-47748 executable, so you can run:

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Walkthrough

The formatter now controls nested line breaks for strings, Promises, Maps, and Sets using a shared condition. Tests cover these values in failure-message diffs and snapshots.

Changes

Nested value formatting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Formatter line-break policy src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs	Formatter::has_snapshot_line_breaks returns true at indentation zero or when output length is not tracked. String, Promise, Map, and Set formatting use this condition to control nested line breaks and indentation.
Failure-message formatting coverage test/js/bun/test/printing/diffexample.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/printing/diffexample.fixture.ts, test/js/bun/test/expect-extend.test.js, test/js/bun/test/printing/dom-nodes.test.ts	Tests cover nested multiline values and collections in failure messages across objects, arrays, matchers, DOM nodes, and fixture output.
Snapshot formatting coverage test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts	Snapshot tests add cases for Maps, Sets, boxed strings, multiline text, weak collections, and a long string before a pending Promise.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#40656 — The issue describes nested multiline strings breaking onto separate lines after the key. This PR changes the nested multiline-string line-break condition.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#37764 — Both PRs modify formatter output-state handling and update formatting expectations in diffexample.test.ts.
• oven-sh/bun#47816 — Both PRs change string line-break decisions in pretty_format.rs and update overlapping formatter tests.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ca3ad

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ca3ad

The nested-value formatting change has no established merge-blocking regression. The existing JSX-key formatting issue remains a bounded follow-up.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the gate cannot reach stored snapshot text: output_length is only set in JestPrettyFormat::format, whose sole callers are the two prints in src/runtime/test_runner/diff_format.rs, so the print_snapshot path keeps output_length == None and prints the legacy breaks unchanged. The Tag::Promise short-circuit skipping good_time_for_a_new_line() (and thus reset_line()) in failure messages was also examined and ruled out: it only affects the line-length estimate, which the no-break branch never consults for output.

Extended reasoning...

The only production change is in src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs, where a new has_snapshot_line_breaks() predicate makes the leading/trailing newlines around nested Map, Set, String object, multi-line string and Promise conditional on being at depth 0 or in snapshot mode; the rest of the diff is tests and new .snap entries pinning the legacy snapshot layout. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed findings (JSX props gluing onto a preceding nested value, and an unescaped ",\n " nested string producing a diff with no changed line) are posted inline, so a human look is warranted; the snapshot-path isolation and the Promise estimate reset were checked and are not affected.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs — Anyone whose failing matcher prints a JSX element with a multi-line string, Set, Map or String-object prop followed by another prop now sees the next prop name glued to the value, e.g. <div text="a\nb"b=2 />. The gate at pretty_format.rs:1207 (and the Map/Set arms at :1801/:1863) removes the trailing line break that was the only separator, while the JSX arm at pretty_format.rs:2201-2216 writes no separator before the last prop. Fix: when removing the stray breaks, make the JSX arm emit a space or line break between every pair of props (drop the iter_i + 1 < count_without_children exclusion of the last pair), so all prop types get a separator.

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: a toEqual/toStrictEqual/toHaveBeenCalledWith failure whose printed value contains a React element with at least two props where a non-last prop is a multi-line string, Set, Map or String object. Entry point is DiffFormatter via JestPrettyFormat::format with an output_length, so has_snapshot_line_breaks() at pretty_format.rs:774 is false for the nested prop value. On the base branch the String arm wrote \n after the closing quote and the Map/Set arms wrote \n after }, so the following prop started on its own line. After this change the trailing break is skipped (pretty_format.rs:1207, :1829, :1886) and the JSX arm at pretty_format.rs:2201-2216 writes a separator only when iter_i + 1 < count_without_children, which is false for the pair before the last prop, so the output becomes <div text="a\nb"b=2 /> with no boundary between the value and the next prop name. New test at diffexample.test.ts:1248 only covers a single prop and so cannot fail on this. Remedy: emit the separator for every prop pair in the JSX arm in the same PR.

  Verification: The multi-line string arm now skips the trailing \n (line 1252-1254 only when has_newline). The JSX prop loop's only separator is at lines 2201-2216, so for the second-to-last prop the condition is false and nothing is written before the next prop. On the base branch the trailing \n from the string/Set/Map arms was the de-facto separator; after this change the output is <div text="a\nb"b=2 />.

[robobun]

On the JSX prop finding: the missing separator is older than this PR, and it is not limited to these values. Bun 1.4.4 and main print <div a=1b=2 /> for two number props, in a failure message and in a stored snapshot. The stray line break after a multi-line string, a Map or a Set hid it for that one position.

I left the separator as it is, for two reasons:

• The one-token change still prints a=1b=2 when children is the first key of props, because the children slot shifts the index. Print the separator between JSX props from what was printed, not the property index #38957 takes the separator from what was printed.
• Print the separator between JSX props from what was printed, not the property index #38957 and Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 change it for snapshots too, on purpose. A separator behind the failure-message gate makes the two texts differ for every element with two or more props.

The PR notes list this under "Not changed". The new test uses an element with one prop, so it does not pin the glued text.

[robobun]

#37764 keeps the field name output_length since 05e6241. This PR and #37764 now compile together in any merge order, with no change here.

The Merge order part of the description has the new state. On main 2596ac5, this head, #37764, #47611 and #47888 build together. Git still reports conflicts with #37764 in three test files, and both PRs declare a top-level const calledWith in diffexample.test.ts. With those resolved, diffexample.test.ts of the merged tree passes (54 tests).

[claude]

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