How to Mock a Static Singleton?

Question

I have number of classes I\'ve been asked to add some unit tests to with Rhino Mocks and having some issues.

First off, I know RhinoMocks doesn\'t allow for the mock

Answer 1

Example from Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code

To run code containing singletons in a test harness, we have to relax the singleton property. Here’s how we do it. The first step is to add a new static method to the singleton class. The method allows us to replace the static instance in the singleton. We’ll call it setTestingInstance.

public class PermitRepository
{
    private static PermitRepository instance = null;
    private PermitRepository() {}
    public static void setTestingInstance(PermitRepository newInstance)
    {
        instance = newInstance;
    }
    public static PermitRepository getInstance()
    {
        if (instance == null) 
        {
            instance = new PermitRepository();
        }
        return instance;
    }
    public Permit findAssociatedPermit(PermitNotice notice) 
    {
    ...
    }
...
}

Now that we have that setter, we can create a testing instance of a PermitRepository and set it. We’d like to write code like this in our test setup:

public void setUp() {
PermitRepository repository = new PermitRepository();
...
// add permits to the repository here
...
PermitRepository.setTestingInstance(repository);
}