I realize there are many many very similar questions. I've been through all of them and I still cannot make my code work.
I have a service defined in my Spring-Boot application, just like this:
@Service
public class FileStorageService {
private final Path fileStorageLocation;
@Autowired
public FileStorageService(final FileStorageProperties fileStorageProperties) {
//FileStorageProperties is a very simple class that right now just holds one String value
this.fileStorageLocation = Paths.get(fileStorageProperties.getUploadDir())
.toAbsolutePath()
.normalize();
try {
Files.createDirectories(fileStorageLocation);
} catch (IOException e) {
// FileStorageException is my custom, runtime exception
throw new FileStorageException("Failed to create directory for stored files", e);
}
}
}
And I want to test scenario, when directory creation fails and thus I need to mock method Files.createDirectories(). My test class looks like this:
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest({Files.class})
public class FileStorageServiceTest {
private static final String UPLOAD_DIR = "uploadDir";
@Test(expected = FileStorageException.class)
public void some_test() throws IOException {
PowerMockito.mockStatic(Files.class);
PowerMockito.when(Files.createDirectories(Mockito.any())).thenThrow(new IOException());
new FileStorageService(createFileStorageProperties());
}
private FileStorageProperties createFileStorageProperties() {
final FileStorageProperties fileStorageProperties = new FileStorageProperties();
fileStorageProperties.setUploadDir(UPLOAD_DIR);
return fileStorageProperties;
}
}
I believe I followed every step from tutorials and questions I've read. I use:
Still, no exception is thrown during test and it fails. WIll be super thankful for the help, cause I feel I miss something really simple and just cannot see it.
From: https://github.com/powermock/powermock/wiki/Mock-System
Normally you would prepare the class that contains the static methods (let's call it X) you like to mock but because it's impossible for PowerMock to prepare a system class for testing so another approach has to be taken. So instead of preparing X you prepare the class that calls the static methods in X!
Basically, we mock the class's use of the System class, rather than unmockable System class itself.
@PrepareForTest({Files.class})
An alternative, non-Powermock way to do this without mocking any system class would be to create a helper method, @Spy the original class, and mock that helper method specifically to throw the exception.
when(spy.doSomethingWithSystemClasses()).thenThrow(new Exception("Foo"));