Mocking a private constructor

Question

The Site class is provided to me by an external team and has a private constructor.

public class Site
{
   int id;
   String br         


        

Answer 1

Assuming that your code accesses to the value of id and brand only through getters, you could simply mock your class Site then return this mock when you call the static method SiteUtil.getSite() as next:

// Use the launcher of powermock
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
public class MyTestClass {

    @Test
    // Prepare the class for which we want to mock a static method
    @PrepareForTest(SiteUtil.class)
    public void myTest() throws Exception{
        // Build the mock of Site
        Site mockSite = PowerMockito.mock(Site.class);
        // Define the return values of the getters of our mock
        PowerMockito.when(mockSite.getId()).thenReturn(1);
        PowerMockito.when(mockSite.getBrand()).thenReturn("Google");
        // We use spy as we only want to mock one specific method otherwise
        // to mock all static methods use mockStatic instead
        PowerMockito.spy(SiteUtil.class);
        // Define the return value of our static method
        PowerMockito.when(SiteUtil.getSite()).thenReturn(mockSite);

        ...
    }
}