Mocking a URL in Java

Question

We have a URL object in one of our Java classes that we want to mock, but it\'s a final class so we cannot. We do not want to go a level above, and mock the InputStream beca

Answer 1

When I have a class that can't be easily mocked because it is final (or sealed in C#), my usual route is to write a wrapper around the class and use the wrapper wherever I would use the actual class. Then I would mock out the wrapper class as necessary.