androidunit-testingmockitopowermockito

Account: Mockito Test Account

I am writing unit test using Mockito for a method which returns Account object.

I am creating a new account as following:

Private Account testAccount = new Account("name", "type");

Code is not crashing but I am always getting this exception when I debug:

Method threw 'java.lang.RuntimeException' exception. Cannot evaluate android.accounts.Account.toString()

And testAccount.name and testAccount.type is always null.

Can someone tell me if I am doing something wrong or if there is a proper way to mock it and get same account name and type as defined at time of initialisation?

Solution

  • A colleague at work figured this out that we have to do reflection for the Account object as its fields are defined final, so you have to do it as following:

    Account account = new Account("MyAccount", "SomeType");
Field nameField = account.getClass().getDeclaredField("name");
nameField.setAccessible(true);
nameField.set(account, "your value");

// Set whatever field you want to configure
Field typeField = account.getClass().getDeclaredField("type");
typeField.setAccessible(true);
typeField.set(account, "your value");