Mocking Static Blocks in Java

Question

My motto for Java is \"just because Java has static blocks, it doesn\'t mean that you should be using them.\" Jokes aside, there are a lot of tricks in Java that make testing a

Answer 1

You could write your test code in Groovy and easily mock the static method using metaprogramming.

Math.metaClass.'static'.max = { int a, int b -> 
    a + b
}

Math.max 1, 2

If you can't use Groovy, you will really need to refactoring the code (maybe to inject something like a initializator).

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