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

I think you can use Powermock to do this. I was able to mock URL class using PowerMock lately. Hope this helps.

/* Actual class */

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

public class TestClass {

    public URL getUrl()
        throws MalformedURLException {

        URL url = new URL("http://localhost/");
        return url;
    }
}

/* Test class */

import java.net.URL;

import junit.framework.Assert;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(value = { TestClass.class })
public class TestClassTest {

    private TestClass testClass = new TestClass();

    @Test
    public void shouldReturnUrl()
        throws Exception {

        URL url = PowerMockito.mock(URL.class);
        PowerMockito.whenNew(URL.class).withParameterTypes(String.class)
                .withArguments(Mockito.anyString()).thenReturn(url);
        URL url1 = testClass.getUrl();
        Assert.assertNotNull(url1);
    }
}