Mockito: Trying to spy on method is calling the original method
Let me quote the official documentation:
Important gotcha on spying real objects!
Sometimes it's impossible to use when(Object) for stubbing spies. Example:
List list = new LinkedList(); List spy = spy(list); // Impossible: real method is called so spy.get(0) throws IndexOutOfBoundsException (the list is yet empty) when(spy.get(0)).thenReturn("foo"); // You have to use doReturn() for stubbing doReturn("foo").when(spy).get(0);
In your case it goes something like:
doReturn(resultsIWant).when(myClassSpy).method1();
My case was different from the accepted answer. I was trying to mock a package-private method for an instance that did not live in that package
package common;
public class Animal {
void packageProtected();
}
package instances;
class Dog extends Animal { }
and the test classes
package common;
public abstract class AnimalTest<T extends Animal> {
@Before
setup(){
doNothing().when(getInstance()).packageProtected();
}
abstract T getInstance();
}
package instances;
class DogTest extends AnimalTest<Dog> {
Dog getInstance(){
return spy(new Dog());
}
@Test
public void myTest(){}
}
The compilation is correct, but when it tries to setup the test, it invokes the real method instead.
Declaring the method protected or public fixes the issue, tho it's not a clean solution.
In my case, using Mockito 2.0, I had to change all the any()
parameters to nullable()
in order to stub the real call.