When I then try to run the second example from PowerMock's Bypass Encapsulation docs, using PowerMock 1.5.2 (which we use at my company), I immediately get a ConstructorNotFoundException
thrown. I tried switching to version 1.6.2, with the same result.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? (I'm not using any of the PowerMock annotations, as per example, and am running Java 1.7.) I'm sure it must be a simple oversight on my part...
Here's my POM for the example from the docs:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>PowerMock</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.powermock</groupId>
<artifactId>powermock-mockito-release-full</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
And here's the test class:
import org.powermock.reflect.Whitebox;
public class Test {
@org.junit.Test
public void test() throws Exception {
PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo instance = Whitebox.invokeConstructor(PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo.class, new Class<?>[]{Integer.class}, 43);
System.out.println();
}
}
Here's the exception in all its glory:
org.powermock.reflect.exceptions.ConstructorNotFoundException: Failed to find a constructor with parameter types: [[Ljava.lang.Class;, java.lang.Integer] at org.powermock.reflect.internal.WhiteboxImpl.invokeConstructor(WhiteboxImpl.java:1354) at org.powermock.reflect.Whitebox.invokeConstructor(Whitebox.java:511) at Test.test(Test.java:6) ...
Any ideas? I'm sure the thing I'm missing is super simple...
This must be a mistake in the example. Looking at the signature of public static <T> T invokeConstructor(Class<T> classThatContainsTheConstructorToTest, Class<?>[] parameterTypes, Object[] arguments)
, you should pass an array of Objects as the last argument. I have modified the example a bit to illustrate this.
The test:
@org.junit.Test
public void test() throws Exception {
PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo instance1 = Whitebox.invokeConstructor(PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo.class, new Class<?>[]{Integer.TYPE}, new Object[]{43});
PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo instance2 = Whitebox.invokeConstructor(PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo.class, new Class<?>[]{Integer.class}, new Object[]{43});
System.out.println();
}
The class:
public static class PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo {
private final int state;
private PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo(int state) {
this.state = state;
System.out.println("int " + state);
}
private PrivateConstructorInstantiationDemo(Integer state) {
this.state = state;
System.out.println("Integer " + state);
// do something else
}
public int getState() {
return state;
}
}
Test output:
int 43
Integer 43