Mocking a singleton with mockito

Question

I need to test some legacy code, which uses a singleton in a a method call. The purpose of the test is to ensure that the clas sunder test makes a call to singletons method.

Answer 1

I just want to complete the solution from noscreenname. The solution is using PowerMockito. Because PowerMockito can do something like Mockito, So sometimes you can just use PowerMockito .

The example code is here:

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;


import java.lang.reflect.Field;

import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.mock;
import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.when;

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest({Singleton.class})
public class SingletonTest {

    @Test
    public void test_1() {
        // create a mock singleton and change
        Singleton mock = mock(Singleton.class);
        when(mock.dosth()).thenReturn("succeeded");
        System.out.println(mock.dosth());

        // insert that singleton into Singleton.getInstance()
        PowerMockito.mockStatic(Singleton.class);
        when(Singleton.getInstance()).thenReturn(mock);
        System.out.println("result:" + Singleton.getInstance().dosth());
    }

}

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Singleton class:

public class Singleton {

    private static Singleton INSTANCE;

    private Singleton() {
    }

    public static Singleton getInstance() {
        if (INSTANCE == null) {
            INSTANCE = new Singleton();
        }
        return INSTANCE;
    }

    public String dosth() {
        return "failed";
    }

}

Here is my Gradle:

/*
*  version compatibility see: https://github.com/powermock/powermock/wiki/mockito
*
* */

def powermock='2.0.2'
def mockito='2.8.9'
...
dependencies {
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'

    /** mock **/
    testCompile group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-core', version: "${mockito}"

    testCompile "org.powermock:powermock-core:${powermock}"
    testCompile "org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4:${powermock}"
    testCompile "org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito2:${powermock}"
    /**End of power mock **/

}