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How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1701182]

Thu, 09 July 2015 12:51

Eclipse User

Hey

my StringGenerator class accesses the workspace being able to look up certain information from different files in the workspace. Now I'm writing an isolated unit test that should work without the eclipse workspace. Unfortunately I'm not able to inject the mocked dependency.

How do I inject the mocked instance of ResourceLookUp into the StringGenerator instance?

The class to be tested:

class StringGenerator {

	@Inject extension ResourceLookUp resourceLookUp

	def dispatch initStep(TestRequired o) '''
		Test Case «o.name.testNameLookUp» (Test Case ID: «o.name») has been successfully performed.'''
}

The Test:

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*

@RunWith(JUnitParamsRunner)
class StringGeneratorInitialisationTest {

	@Inject extension ValidationTestHelper validationTestHelper = new ValidationTestHelper
	@Inject extension StringGenerator stringGenerator = new StringGenerator
	@Inject extension ParseHelper<Model> parseHelper = new ParseHelper

	@Before
	def void before() {
		var i = new TestStandaloneSetup().createInjectorAndDoEMFRegistration
		i.injectMembers(parseHelper)

		val resourceLookUp = mock(ResourceLookUp)
		when(resourceLookUp.testNameLookUp("TEST XYZ")).thenReturn("TEST NAME AS STRING")
		// how do I get this mocked ResourceLookUp instances injected into StringGenerator instance?


		i.injectMembers(stringGenerator)
		i.injectMembers(validationTestHelper)
	}

	 // here comes my test ....
}

I was playing around with the debugger but could not find any solution Sad

Thank you!

Kon

Re: How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1701196 is a reply to message #1701182]

Thu, 09 July 2015 15:04

Eclipse User

simply use a StandaloneSetup that uses a Module that has an instance binding for the thing you are looking for

Re: How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1701236 is a reply to message #1701196]

Fri, 10 July 2015 03:48

Eclipse User

Hey Christian,

thank you for your reply Smile

Do you have an example how to achieve this? I tried the following but could not find a Guice-Factory to wrap the actual instance with the Binding type.

val resourceLookUp = mock(ResourceLookUp)
when(resourceLookUp.testNameLookUp("TEST XYZ")).thenReturn("TEST NAME AS STRING")
Binding<ResourceLookUp> instance = // WRAP resourceLookUp instance with Binding interface
i.bindings.put(TypeLiteral.get(ResourceLookUp),  instance)

I also thought of getting the modul (couldn't find the it in IjectorImpl) and use:

bind(ResourceLookUp).toInstance(resourceLookUp)

Thank you! Smile

Kon

Re: How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1701237 is a reply to message #1701236]

Fri, 10 July 2015 03:52

Eclipse User

no i have not. you have to read, understand and modify the code of the standalonesetup.createinjector yourself

Re: How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1701247 is a reply to message #1701237]

Fri, 10 July 2015 04:45

Eclipse User

Hey Christian,

thank you again! I actually thought I that I could simply exchange the map value from the bindings map. But I'm not sure if this is an intended. So I did what you suggested:

@Before
	def void before() {
		val i = new TestStandaloneSetup() {
			override createInjector() {
				Guice.createInjector(new TestRuntimeModule() {
					override configure(Binder binder) {
						super.configure(binder)

						val resourceLookUp = mock(ResourceLookUp)
						when(resourceLookUp.testNameLookUp("TEST XYZ")).thenReturn("TEST NAME AS STRING")
						binder.bind(ResourceLookUp).toInstance(resourceLookUp)
					}
				})
			}
		}.createInjectorAndDoEMFRegistration

		i.injectMembers(parseHelper)
		i.injectMembers(stringGenerator)
		i.injectMembers(validationTestHelper)
	}

Best regards,

Kon

Re: How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1702578 is a reply to message #1701247]

Thu, 23 July 2015 07:47

Eclipse User

Hey,

noticed that the injection does not work completely as expected. The StringGenerator class gets the mocked ResourceLookUp instance.

class StringGenerator {

	@Inject extension ResourceLookUp resourceLookUp

	def dispatch initStep(TestRequired o) '''
		Test Case «o.name.testNameLookUp» (Test Case ID: «o.name») has been successfully performed.'''
}

but if the test-case contains an error assertion like model.assertNoErrors my TestValidator gets called. Unfortunately the ResourceLookUp instance there is not the mocked one Sad

class TestValidator extends AbstractTestValidator {

	@Inject extension ResourceLookUp resourceLookUp 

 	// ...
}

It somehow ignores my guice setup:

val mockedResourceLookUp = mock(ResourceLookUp)
when(mockedResourceLookUp.testNameLookUp("TEST XYZ")).thenReturn("TEST NAME AS STRING")
bind(ResourceLookUp).toInstance(mockedResourceLookUp)

and uses the "real" class for injection. Is there anything spezial about the dependency injection for the validator class?

Thank you.

Kon

Re: How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1702581 is a reply to message #1702578]

Thu, 23 July 2015 07:59

Eclipse User

the validators are created early

Re: How to inject a mocked dependency into the tested instance? [message #1702884 is a reply to message #1702581]

Mon, 27 July 2015 04:35

Eclipse User

Hey Christian,

if I let my test class derive from AbstractXtextTests, it works as expected Smile

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*

@RunWith(JUnitParamsRunner)
class StringGeneratorInitialisationTest extends AbstractXtextTests {

}

Thank you!

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