SERVER-71237 Do not print full expected output when golden test file does not exist

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/unittest/golden_test_base.cpp b/src/mongo/unittest/golden_test_base.cpp
index e8b6a9b298c..18d7dd7197a 100644
--- a/src/mongo/unittest/golden_test_base.cpp
+++ b/src/mongo/unittest/golden_test_base.cpp
@@ -157,14 +157,13 @@ std::string GoldenTestContextBase::sanitizeName(const std::string& str) {
 }
 
 void GoldenTestContextBase::verifyOutput() {
-    std::string actualStr = _outStream.str();
-
     fs::path goldenDataPath = getGoldenDataPath();
     if (!fs::exists(goldenDataPath)) {
         failResultMismatch(
-            actualStr, boost::none, "Golden data file doesn't exist: {}"_format(goldenDataPath));
+            "<omitted>", boost::none, "Golden data file doesn't exist: {}"_format(goldenDataPath));
     }
 
+    std::string actualStr = _outStream.str();
     std::string expectedStr = readFile(goldenDataPath);
     if (actualStr != expectedStr) {
         failResultMismatch(actualStr, expectedStr, "Actual result doesn't match golden data.");