How to use shouldVerifyInOrderOnlyTwoInvocations method of org.mockitousage.verification.BasicVerificationInOrderTest class

When you create a mock object

mockResponse = mock(HttpServletResponse.class);

by default, all its methods that have a reference type return type (minus a few special cases) return null.

So the return value of getOutputStream() in this snippet

ServletOutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();

is null.

You need to set expectations and specify a return value.

when(mockResponse.getOutputStream().thenReturn(/* the value to return when that method is invoked */);

This is called stubbing.

The thenReturn method will always return what is passed to it. The code new Servicemock() is being executed prior to the call to thenReturn. The created ServiceMock is then being passed to thenReturn. Therefore thenReturn has a absolute instance of ServiceMock not a creation mechanism.

If you need to provide an new instance, use thenAnswer

when(mockedMergeContext.createNewEntityOfType(IService.class))
  .thenAnswer(new Answer<IService>() {
     public IService answer(InvocationOnMock invocation) {
        return new ServiceMock();
     }
   });

Ideally, you should "favor composition over inheritance".

If you don't have this option you could use doNothing which basically tells Mockito to do nothing when a method in a mock/spy object is called. This was also discussed here

Following code example should help

@Test
public void tst() {
    ChildClass ch = Mockito.spy(new ChildClass());
    Mockito.doNothing().when((SuperClass)ch).run();
    ch.childRunner();

}

class SuperClass{
    public void run(){
        System.out.println("I am running in Super class");
    }
}

class ChildClass extends SuperClass{
    public void childRunner(){
        System.out.println("Step 1");
        run();
        System.out.println("Last Step");
    }
}

output:

Step 1
Last Step

In case you use super.run(); this won't work

Use statement like this before mocked object compareTo() method calling:

when(mockedObject.compareTo(any(Sortable.class))).thenCallRealMethod();

Usually when unit testing you want to mock all external dependencies of a class. That way the unit test can remain independent and focused on the class under test.

Nevertheless, if you want to mix Spring autowiring with Mockito mocks, an easy solution is to annotate with both @InjectMocks and @Autowired:

  @InjectMocks
  @Autowired
  private UploadServiceImpl uploadService;

The net effect of this is that first Spring will autowire the bean, then Mockito will immediately overwrite the mocked dependencies with the available mocks.

If this is really a maven project and you are using matching m2e-version 1.9, it should automatically configure the "Contains test sources."-setting and the related settings correctly.

You may have to update the project classpath by right-clicking on the project and Choosing "Maven" > "Update Project"

You can also use the non-type safe method doReturn for this purpose,

@Test
public void testMockitoWithGenerics()
{
    DummyClass dummyClass = Mockito.mock(DummyClass.class);
    List<? extends Number> someList = new ArrayList<Integer>();

    Mockito.doReturn(someList).when(dummyClass).dummyMethod();

    Assert.assertEquals(someList, dummyClass.dummyMethod());
}

as discussed on Mockito's google group.

While this is simpler than thenAnswer, again note that it is not type safe. If you're concerned about type safety, millhouse's answer is correct.

Additional Details

To be clear, here's the observed compiler error,

The method thenReturn(List<capture#1-of ? extends Number>) in the type OngoingStubbing<List<capture#1-of ? extends Number>> is not applicable for the arguments (List<capture#2-of ? extends Number>)

I believe the compiler has assigned the first wildcard type during the when call and then cannot confirm that the second wildcard type in the thenReturn call is the same.

It looks like thenAnswer doesn't run into this issue because it accepts a wildcard type while thenReturn takes a non-wildcard type, which must be captured. From Mockito's OngoingStubbing,

OngoingStubbing<T> thenAnswer(Answer<?> answer);
OngoingStubbing<T> thenReturn(T value);

Take a look at the Mockito API docs. As the linked document mentions (Point # 12) you can use any of the doThrow(),doAnswer(),doNothing(),doReturn() family of methods from Mockito framework to mock void methods.

For example,

Mockito.doThrow(new Exception()).when(instance).methodName();

or if you want to combine it with follow-up behavior,

Mockito.doThrow(new Exception()).doNothing().when(instance).methodName();

Presuming that you are looking at mocking the setter setState(String s) in the class World below is the code uses doAnswer method to mock the setState.

World mockWorld = mock(World.class); 
doAnswer(new Answer<Void>() {
    public Void answer(InvocationOnMock invocation) {
      Object[] args = invocation.getArguments();
      System.out.println("called with arguments: " + Arrays.toString(args));
      return null;
    }
}).when(mockWorld).setState(anyString());

Further reading has led me to try using ArgumentCaptors and the following works, although much more verbose than I would like.

ArgumentCaptor<String> argument = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(String.class);

verify(errors, atLeastOnce()).add(argument.capture(), any(ActionMessage.class));

List<String> values = argument.getAllValues();

assertTrue(values.contains("exception.message"));
assertTrue(values.contains("exception.detail"));