I am a Java developer who is beginning to grasp the full power of dependency injections, and it suddenly dawned on me that there's no way to inject a static method. So it got me thinking: are static methods DI anti-patterns?
More importantly: if I were to embrace dependency injection, does this mean I need to stop coding static methods? I ask because there is no way to mock them and inject mock statics during unit tests, which is a huge turn-off for me.
Edit: I know that a common way to "wrap" and inject an existing static method is like this:
public class Foo {
public static void bar() { ... }
}
public interface FooWrapper {
public void bar();
}
public class FooWrapperImpl implements FooWrapper {
public void bar() {
return Foo.bar();
}
}
...but I'm not asking how to inject an existing static method...I'm asking if I should stop writing them altogether, if all my code (from this point forward) is going to embrace the notion of DI.
Also, I see a lot of similarly-related questions to this, but couldn't find an exact match that asked this same question. If you see that it is indeed a dupe of another question, please point it out to me and I will close this question myself (please don't just closevote it!).