I have a jsf spring application and using mockito for my unit test. I keep getting NullPointerException
when i run my junit
test in iEmployeeService
mocking. There are not Exception
for iSecurityLoginService
.
Method to be mocked
@Autowired
IEmployeeService iEmployeeService;
@Autowired
ISecurityLoginService iSecurityLoginService;
public void addEvent() {
entityEventsCreate.setTitle(entityEventsCreate.getTitle());
entityEventsCreate.setModifiedBy(iSecurityLoginService
.findLoggedInUserId());
int eventId = iEmployeeService.addEmployeeTimeOff(entityEventsCreate);
}
My JUnit test is annotated with @RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
@Mock
ISecurityLoginService iSecurityLoginService;
@Mock
IEmployeeService iEmployeeService;
@InjectMocks
ServiceCalendarViewBean serviceCalendarViewBean = new ServiceCalendarViewBean();
@Before public void initMocks() {
MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
}
@Test
public void testSaveEvent() {
Mockito.when(iSecurityLoginService.findLoggedInUserId()).thenReturn(1);
serviceCalendarViewBean.getEntityEventsCreate().setTitle("Junit Event Testing");
Mockito.when(iSecurityLoginService.findLoggedInUserId()).thenReturn(1);
Mockito.when(iEmployeeService.addEmployeeTimeOff(Mockito.any(Events.class))).thenReturn(2);
serviceCalendarViewBean.addEvent();
}
Not related to the question, but useful to know !
If the test is annotated with @RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
then MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
is not necessary (it may even cause issues when injecting), the mockito runner performs injection and additional stuffs to validate mocks.
Also having both mock init mechanisms may cause trouble with injection and stubbing, this is due to the way the lifecyle of JUnit test and how mockito unit-integration code is used :
- The runner will create mocks and inject those mocks in the test object.
- Then the
@Before
methods kicks in and recreate new mocks, and may not perform injection as the object is already initialized.
I solved the problem..In my spring bean, i had 2 objects for the same service interface. so the mock was being set for the first interface object.
Ex: in my bean i had,
@Autowired
IEmployeeService employeeService;
@Autowired
IEmployeeService iEmployeeService;
So the mock create for the IEmployeeservice interfaces was being inject for the first service object irrelevant for their names.
@Mock
IEmployeeService iEmployeeService;
ie, the mock object 'iEmployeeService' was injected to beans 'employeeService' .
Thank you for all those who helped..:)
Try to add this
@Before
public void initMocks() {
MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
}
I had a similar problem and after few researches, I found that it looks like the @InjectMocks
were not working and failing silently without injecting the @AutoWired
private objects,
Solution : Change the design by making the dependencies visible through constructor,
IEmployeeService iEmployeeService;
ISecurityLoginService iSecurityLoginService;
@Autowired
public ServiceCalendarViewBean(final IEmployeeService iEmployeeService,
final ISecurityLoginService iSecurityLoginService){
this.iEmployeeService=iEmployeeService;
this.iSecurityLoginService=iSecurityLoginService;
}
This link helped me in identifying how to work on @Autowired
objects which is not visible