Java test class with many private methods

Question

I have a class that has the responsibility of importing contracts from a CSV to database.

The class itself has only one public method that starts the import and the

Answer 1

You can use reflection to achieve this. The Method class has a method called setAcessible(boolean) which enables you to call it even if declared as private/protected/default. See the example below:

YourClass yourClassInstance = new YourClass();
Method yourMethod = YourClass.class.getDeclaredMethod("yourMethod", null);
yourMethod.setAccessible(true);
Object[] parameters = new Object[1];
parameters[0] = "A String parameter";
Object result = yourMethod.invoke(yourClassInstance, parameters);