Espresso match selected spinner text - testing

Question

Following the answer here, I try to check whether a certain spinner text is selected. The spinner appears in a dialog, so I tried:
onView(withId(R.id.package_spinner)).inRoot(isDialog()).check(matches(withSpinnerText(containsString("sachet"))));
However this does not work and I get the following error message:
android.support.test.espresso.base.DefaultFailureHandler$AssertionFailedWithCauseError:
'with text: a string containing "sachet"' doesn't match the selected
view.
Expected: with text: a string containing "sachet"
Got: "AppCompatSpinner{id=2131624039, res-name=package_spinner, visibility=VISIBLE, width=620, height=75, has-focus=false,
has-focusable=true, has-window-focus=true, is-clickable=true,
is-enabled=true, is-focused=false, is-focusable=true,
is-layout-requested=false, is-selected=false,
root-is-layout-requested=false, has-input-connection=false, x=0.0,
y=75.0, child-count=1}"
Does "is-selected=false" mean, that the spinner it found is not selected? This is running on a real device (not emulator) with API 18. During the Espresso run and also when testing manually, the spinner is correctly set to "sachet". Why does Espresso have a problem with it?
Not sure whether this is relevant, but the spinner is for objects of type:
public class PackageType {
private int id;
private String name;
private final Context ctx;
public PackageType(Context context) { this.ctx=context; }
public PackageType(String name, Context context) {
super();
this.ctx = context;
setName(name);
}
// setters
public void setId(int i) { this.id = i; }
public void setName(String u) {
this.name = u;
}
// getters
public int getId() { return id; }
public String getName() { return name; }
}
and the spinner adapter looks like:
class SpinnerPackageTypeAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<PackageType> {
private final List<PackageType> packageTypes;
private final Context mContext;
public SpinnerPackageTypeAdapter(Context context, int resource, List<PackageType> packageTypes) {
super(context, resource, packageTypes);
this.mContext = context;
this.packageTypes = packageTypes;
}
public PackageType getItem(int position) { return packageTypes.get(position); }
public long getItemId(int position) { return position; }
// this is for the passive state of the spinner
#Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
// use dynamically created TextView, but could reference custom layout
TextView label = new TextView(mContext);
label.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
label.setTextSize(mContext.getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.list_row_font_size));
label.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
label.setText(getItem(position).getName());
return label;
}
// this is for the chooser dropped down spinner
#Override
public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
TextView label = (TextView) View.inflate(mContext,R.layout.row_spinner,null);
label.setText(getItem(position).getName());
return label;
}
}

Answer 1

I found the problem. In class PackageType I had to override the toString() method as (of course other versions are possible as long as "name" is in there):
#Override
public String toString() {
return "PackageType [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + "]";
}