Using @Spy and @Autowired together
I was surprised myself but it does work for us. We have plenty places like:
@Spy
@Autowired
private FeatureService featureService;
I think I know why you are facing this problem. It's not about injection, it's about when(bloMock.doSomeStuff()).thenReturn(1)
vs doReturn(1).when(bloMock).doSomeStuff()
.
See: http://www.stevenschwenke.de/spyingWithMockito
The very important difference is that the first option will actually call the doSomeStuff()- method while the second will not. Both will cause doSomeStuff() to return the desired 1.
I know about these two options:
- Use @SpyBean annotation from spring-boot-test as the only annotation
@Autowired
@InjectMocks
private ProductController productController;
@SpyBean
private ProductService productServiceSpy;
- Use Java reflection to "autowire" the spy object, e.g. ReflectionTestUtils
@Autowired
private ProductController productController;
@Autowired
private ProductService productService;
@Before
public void setUp() {
ProductService productServiceSpy = Mockito.spy(productService);
ReflectionTestUtils.setField(productController, "productService", productServiceSpy);
}
Using @Spy
together with @Autowired
works until you want to verify interaction between that spy and a different component that spy is injected into. What I found to work for me was the following approach found at https://dzone.com/articles/how-to-mock-spring-bean-version-2
@Configuration
public class AddressServiceTestConfiguration {
@Bean
@Primary
public AddressService addressServiceSpy(AddressService addressService) {
return Mockito.spy(addressService);
}
}
This turns your autowired component into a spy object, which will be used by your service and can be verified in your tests.