Does mockito have an equivalent idiom to jMock's States?

Question

The book Growing Object Oriented Software gives several examples in jMock where the state is made explicit without exposing it through an API. I really like this id

Answer 1

Not that I'm aware of. I've used mockito a far amount and there's nothing in the doco similar to what I read on the JMock site about states. If I have it correctly they basically limit the time at which an exepection can occur to the duration of a specific state of another object. It's an interesting idea, but I'm struggling to see the applications for it.

In Mockito you can execute code using Stubbing with callbacks to do the same job. In the callback method you can execute further validations of the state. Alternatively you can employ a Custom argument matcher as they are also executed at the time of the call.

Both of these give you access to the code at execution time which is the time you want to check the state.