Read returned bytes in web3js

Question

I have a simple contract with a function that should return a byte32 which is passed as a parameter.

This is a snippet of my contract

contract SimpleContract{
   function simple(byte32 toReturn, byte32 otherArg) public returns (byte32){
        //Work with the values
        return toReturn; //Unmodified
   }
}

Now, if I test it in Solidity, works seamlessly, but since I want to run more complex test, I turned to Truffle and used its JS library to run the test. Specifically, simple is tested this way:

contract("SimpleContract", function(accounts){
   it("should return the passed value", function (){
       SimpleContract.deployed().then(function(instance){
          var arg1 = 0xec40808d22324ec2fd140c398284c2a263871d111f54eb6f1b308c874ea1abc9;
          var arg2 = 0x1234567890;
          instance.simple.call(arg1, arg2).then(function(returnedValue){
              expect(returnedValue).to.equal(arg1);
          });
       });
   });
});

Then I get this error:

AssertionError: expected 'ec40808d22324ec2fd140c398284c2a263871d111f54eb6f1b308c874ea1abc9' to equal '0xbd4419d46aafe6c72f31a89e54fd9976c34fe7cd385253d36e4226f94376e6dd'

I suspect there is some encoding issue, but I still haven't been able to wrap my head around it.

Answer 1

Your test passes for me when run under the latest truffle version Truffle v4.0.0-beta.2 (core: 4.0.0-beta.2) Solidity v0.4.17 (solc-js)

I haven't tried earlier versions.