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How do I use Powermockito to mock the construction of new objects when testing a method in an anonymous class?

Asked 2011-09-23T01:39:31.240
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I woud like to write a JUnit test to verify that the code below uses a BufferedInputStream:

public static final FilterFactory BZIP2_FACTORY = new FilterFactory() {
    public InputStream makeFilter(InputStream in) {        
        // a lot of other code removed for clarity 
        BufferedInputStream buffer = new BufferedInputStream(in);
        return new CBZip2InputStream(buffer);
    }
};

(FilterFactory is an interface.)

My test thus far looks like this:

@Test
public void testBZIP2_FactoryUsesBufferedInputStream() throws Throwable {
    InputStream in = mock(InputStream.class);
    BufferedInputStream buffer = mock(BufferedInputStream.class);
    CBZip2InputStream expected = mock(CBZip2InputStream.class);

    PowerMockito.spy(InputHelper.BZIP2_FACTORY);  // This line fails
    whenNew(BufferedInputStream.class).withArguments(in).thenReturn(buffer);
    whenNew(CBZip2InputStream.class).withArguments(buffer).thenReturn(expected);
    InputStream observed = InputHelper.BZIP2_FACTORY.makeFilter(in);

    assertEquals(expected, observed);
}

The call to PowerMockito.spy raises an exception with this message:

org.mockito.exceptions.base.MockitoException: 
Mockito cannot mock this class: class edu.gvsu.cis.kurmasz.io.InputHelper$1
Mockito can only mock visible & non-final classes.

What should I be using instead of PowerMocktio.spy to set up the calls to whenNew?

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I just came around the same problem. So according to the documentation of constructor mocking you need to prepare the class, which will create the evil class(es). In your case the evil classes are BufferedInputStream and CBZip2InputStream, and the creator of them is an anonymous class, which cannot be defined in PrepareForTest annotation. So I had to do the same as you did (hmm, just saw your comment), I moved the anonymous class to named class.

answered 2012-02-24T21:27:04.713

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