I need to mock a protected method in the parent class of my class under test but the parent class is in a different package so my test class cannot access that method so I cannot mock it. There's gotta be a solution for this issue without refactoring
I need to use Powermock and Mockito. Here's the JARs
- mockito-all 1.10.8
- powermock-core 1.6.1
- powermock-module-junit4 1.6.1
- powermock-api-mockito 1.6.1
- junit 4.12
This is legacy code so I cannot refactor, but here's the simplified code.
Parent.java
package parent;
public class Parent {
// Want to mock this protected parent method from different package
protected String foo() {
String someValue = null;
// Logic setting someValue
return someValue;
}
}
Child.java
package child;
import parent.Parent;
public class Child extends Parent {
String fooString = null;
public String boo() {
this.fooString = this.foo();
String booString = null;
// Logic setting booString
return booString;
}
}
ChildTest.java
package child;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.spy;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;
import parent.Parent;
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest({ Parent.class, Child.class })
public class ChildTest {
// Class Under Test
Child cut;
@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
// Partial mock to mock methods in parent class
cut = spy(new Child());
}
@Test
public void testBoo() {
// TODO: Need to mock cut.foo() but can't figure out how.
// Following gives me this error: The method foo() from the type Parent is not visible
Mockito.when(((Parent)cut).foo()).thenReturn("mockValue");
// Test
cut.boo();
// Validations
Assert.assertEquals(cut.fooString, "mockValue");
}
}