List of Classes and Methods of org.mockitousage.bugs.creation package of Mockito Framework

It turns out it's not as circumvent as I thought. It can be done using a custom Answer implementation, but since Answer is a functional interface, the following suffices:

Mockito.when(myIterable.spliterator()).then(invocation -> Arrays.spliterator(values));

What this exeception is telling you...

You haven't provided the instance at field declaration

In other words, you did not write...

@InjectMocks 
A a = new A("foobar", 123);

This would be completely acceptable and will probably solve your problem. Please remember that mocks will NOT be initialized at that point, so it's fine if you really need an example String and int there, but not if you need to put mocks there. In other words, if you had a constructor that took an X and you would write new A(x) here, x would be null, since the @Mock annotation would not have been processed yet.

so I tried to construct the instance

Because there was no instance (because you didn't provide one) it tried to create one, but...

However, the constructor or the initialization block threw an exception: null

So, your constructor throws null. Seems like your someMethodCall relies on the arguments (port, most likely) given not to be null, but since they are String and int, Mockito has no idea what values to use there. Since port is a primitive type and Mockito does not handle those specifically, the problem is probably there - Mockito will try to put null there, which will throw an exception.

If your constructor matched X and Y, for example, Mockito would probably try to put the mocks there, but it doesn't. The constructor wants String and int and there are no mocks for them, so Mockito can only use default values and those are null, which is a problem in case of port (because of int).

So, what's the solution?

1) Either make your constructor null-safe, allowing to give a null-port there (and make sure that the ip string is also handled in a null-safe way).

2) Use the thing you didn't use:

@InjectMocks 
A a = new A("foobar", 123);

In any case, it is not required to have all the depedencies in the constructor, Mockito will do fine injecting them into fields directly. So adding another constructor for X and Y is not a real solution. Of course, generally, constructor injection is preferable over field injection, but that's another topic.

As for your question about which constructor: The documentation says this...

the biggest constructor is chosen, then arguments are resolved with mocks declared in the test only

Edit: Seems that Mockito does not know how to handle primitive fields in constructors, what a shame.

As of Java 11, WildFly 14+ and Mockito 2.23.0+, adding jdk.unsupported module dependency to your WAR solves the problem. You can do this in two ways:

A. META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

Add the following line to META_INF/MANIFEST.MF of your WAR archive:

Dependencies: jdk.unsupported

Note that the file must end with a new line or carriage return.

Here is how you'd typically do it with ShrinkWrap/Arquillian:

@Deployment
public static WebArchive createDeployment() {
    return ShrinkWrap.create(WebArchive.class, "my-app.war")
        .addPackages(true, Mockito.class.getPackage(), Objenesis.class.getPackage(), ByteBuddy.class.getPackage())
        .addAsManifestResource(new StringAsset("Dependencies: jdk.unsupported\n" /* required by Mockito */), "MANIFEST.MF");
}

B. WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml

Add the following content to WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml of your WAR archive:

<jboss-deployment-structure>
  <deployment>
    <dependencies>
      <module name="jdk.unsupported" />
    </dependencies>
  </deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>

You can set a default answer for a mock. All methods that aren't stubbed will use this default answer.

public void testUnstubbedException() {
    // Create a mock with all methods throwing a RuntimeException by default
    SomeClass someClass = mock( SomeClass .class, new RuntimeExceptionAnswer() );

    doReturn(1).when(someClass).getId(); // Must use doReturn

    int id = someClass.getId(); // Will return 1

    someClass.unstubbedMethod(); // Will throw RuntimeException
}

public static class RuntimeExceptionAnswer implements Answer<Object> {

    public Object answer( InvocationOnMock invocation ) throws Throwable {
        throw new RuntimeException ( invocation.getMethod().getName() + " is not stubbed" );
    }

}

Note that you cannot use when with this functionality, since the method is called before when (How does mockito when() invocation work?) and it will throw a RuntimeException before the mock goes into stubbing mode.

Therefore, you must use doReturn for this to work.

After doing a bit more research, it seems that PowerMockito.spy() and PowerMockito.doReturn() are what is required here:

package com.richashworth.powermockexample;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;


@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest({DataProvider.class})
public class ResultsWriterTest {

    private static List<String> mockData = new ArrayList<String>();
    private ResultsWriter resultsWriter;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUpOnce() {
        final String firstLine = "Line 1";
        final String secondLine = "Line 2";
        mockData.add(firstLine);
        mockData.add(secondLine);
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        resultsWriter = new ResultsWriter();
    }

    @Test
    public void testGetDataAsString() throws Exception {
        PowerMockito.spy(DataProvider.class);
        PowerMockito.doReturn(mockData).when(DataProvider.class, "readFile");

        final String expectedData = "Line 1\nLine 2\n";
        final String returnedString = resultsWriter.getDataAsString();

        assertEquals(expectedData, returnedString);
    }

}

For further details and the complete code listing, check out my blog post here: https://richashworth.com/post/turbocharge-your-mocking-framework-with-powermock/

HTTP Error 415 Unsupported media type - means that you send the data which is not supported by the service. In this case it means that you don't set the Content-Type header and actual content in the request. I suppose the JSON is expected content, so your call should look like this:

this.mockMvc.perform(post("/payment").contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    .content("{\"json\":\"request to be send\"}"))
    .andExpect(status().isOk())
    .and_the_rest_of_validation_part

Instead of mocking you can create a dummy ResourceBundle implementation, and then pass it as an argument to .thenReturn(resourceBundle):

    import java.util.ResourceBundle;

    ResourceBundle dummyResourceBundle = new ResourceBundle() {
        @Override
        protected Object handleGetObject(String key) {
            return "fake_translated_value";
        }

        @Override
        public Enumeration<String> getKeys() {
            return Collections.emptyEnumeration();
        }
    };

    // Example usage
    when(request.getResourceBundle(any(Locale.class))).thenReturn(dummyResourceBundle)

If you need the actual keys and values, then you'll need to provide an implementation for getKeys(), e.g. a hashmap for storage and key lookup.

The best solution I have found is to reverse the order of the stubs:

Map<String, String> map = mock(Map.class);
when(map.get(anyString())).thenReturn("I don't know that string");
when(map.get("abcd")).thenReturn("defg");
when(map.get("defg")).thenReturn("ghij");

When the default is to throw an exception you can just use doThrow and doReturn

doThrow(new RuntimeException()).when(map).get(anyString());
doReturn("defg").when(map).get("abcd");
doReturn("ghij").when(map).get("defg");

https://static.javadoc.io/org.mockito/mockito-core/2.18.3/org/mockito/Mockito.html#12

I wanted to do the same thing, and eventually accomplished it by using the Mockito "spy" function, which wraps a real object with a mock object. All calls to the mock object get forwarded to the real object, except those you are trying to mock. For example:

ObjectMapper om = Mockito.spy(new ObjectMapper());
Mockito.when( om.writeValueAsString(ErrorObject.class)).thenThrow(new JsonProcessingException("") {});

All usages of om will be handled by the underlying ObjectMapper instance until an instance of ErrorObject gets passed in, at which point the JsonProcessingException will be thrown.

The newJsonProcessingException is created as an anonymous class, as it is a protected class and only a sub-class can be instantiated.