Spring jdbcTemplate unit testing

Question

I am new to Spring and only somewhat experienced with JUnit and Mockito

I have the following method which requires a unit test

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Answer 1

If you want to do a pure unit test then for the line

service.getJdbcTemplate().query("....");

You will need to mock the Service, then the service.getJdbcTemplate() method to return a mock JdbcTemplate object, then mock the query method of mocked JdbcTemplate to return the List you need. Something like this:

@Mock
Service service;

@Mock
JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate;


@Test
public void testGetUserNames() {

    List userNames = new ArrayList();
    userNames.add("bob");

    when(service.getJdbcTemplate()).thenReturn(jdbcTemplate);
    when(jdbcTemplate.query(anyString(), anyObject()).thenReturn(userNames);

    String retVal = Class.getUserNames("test");
    assertEquals("bob", retVal);
}

The above doesn't require any sort of Spring support. If you were doing an Integration Test where you actually wanted to test that data was being pulled from a DB properly, then you would probably want to use the Spring Test Runner.