How to mock a String using mockito?

Question

I need to simulate a test scenario in which I call the getBytes() method of a String object and I get an UnsupportedEncodingException.

I have tried to achie

Answer 1

If all you are going to do in your catch block is throw a runtime exception then you can save yourself some typing by just using a Charset object to specify your character set name.

public final class A{
    public static String f(String str){
        return new String(str.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
    }
}

This way you aren't catching an exception that will never happen just because the compiler tells you to.