How to use Mockito or PowerMock to mock a protected method that is realized by a subclass, but inherited from an abstract super class?
In other words, I want to test "doSomething" method while mocking the "doSomethingElse".
Abstract super class
public abstract class TypeA {
public void doSomething() {
// Calls for subclass behavior
doSomethingElse();
}
protected abstract String doSomethingElse();
}
Subclass implementation
public class TypeB extends TypeA {
@Override
protected String doSomethingElse() {
return "this method needs to be mocked";
}
}
Solution
Answers given here are correct and will work if classes involved are in the same package.
But if different packages are involved one option is to user PowerMock. The following example worked for me. Of course there might be other ways of doing it, this is one that works.
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest({ TypeB.class })
public class TestAbstract {
@Test
public void test_UsingPowerMock() throws Exception {
// Spy a subclass using PowerMock
TypeB b = PowerMockito.spy(new TypeB());
String expected = "some value for mock";
// Mock a method by its name using PowerMock again
PowerMockito.doReturn(expected).when(b, "doSomethingElse");
// Calls the
String actual = b.doSomething();
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
}
Note: Tests done using Java 5, jUnit 4.11, Mockito 1.9.0 and PowerMock 1.4.12.
To mock methods that returns void in abstract classes we could use:
We can replace arguments with Mockito.anyString() etc as per requirements.
You can use
Mockito.CALLS_REAL_METHODS
when mocking the abstract method. This will call the originals methods of the class and you can mock all abstract methods by yourself.Or you test directly on the TypeB with a spy:
I suggest using Mockito for that:
You can test your abtract class using mockito in the following way