Injecting Mockito mocks into a Spring bean

Question

I would like to inject a Mockito mock object into a Spring (3+) bean for the purposes of unit testing with JUnit. My bean dependencies are currently injected by using the

Answer 1

I have a very simple solution using Spring Java Config and Mockito:

@Configuration
public class TestConfig {

    @Mock BeanA beanA;
    @Mock BeanB beanB;

    public TestConfig() {
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this); //This is a key
    }

    //You basically generate getters and add @Bean annotation everywhere
    @Bean
    public BeanA getBeanA() {
        return beanA;
    }

    @Bean
    public BeanB getBeanB() {
        return beanB;
    }
}

Answer 2

Given:

@Service
public class MyService {
    @Autowired
    private MyDAO myDAO;

    // etc
}

You can have the class that is being tested loaded via autowiring, mock the dependency with Mockito, and then use Spring's ReflectionTestUtils to inject the mock into the class being tested.

@ContextConfiguration(classes = { MvcConfiguration.class })
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class MyServiceTest {
    @Autowired
    private MyService myService;

    private MyDAO myDAOMock;

    @Before
    public void before() {
        myDAOMock = Mockito.mock(MyDAO.class);
        ReflectionTestUtils.setField(myService, "myDAO", myDAOMock);
    }

    // etc
}

Please note that before Spring 4.3.1, this method won't work with services behind a proxy (annotated with @Transactional, or Cacheable, for example). This has been fixed by SPR-14050.

For earlier versions, a solution is to unwrap the proxy, as described there: Transactional annotation avoids services being mocked (which is what ReflectionTestUtils.setField does by default now)

Answer 3

Update: There are now better, cleaner solutions to this problem. Please consider the other answers first.

I eventually found an answer to this by ronen on his blog. The problem I was having is due to the method Mockito.mock(Class c) declaring a return type of Object. Consequently Spring is unable to infer the bean type from the factory method return type.

Ronen's solution is to create a FactoryBean implementation that returns mocks. The FactoryBean interface allows Spring to query the type of objects created by the factory bean.

My mocked bean definition now looks like:

<bean id="mockDaoFactory" name="dao" class="com.package.test.MocksFactory">
    <property name="type" value="com.package.Dao" />
</bean>

Answer 4

@InjectMocks
private MyTestObject testObject;

@Mock
private MyDependentObject mockedObject;

@Before
public void setup() {
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
}

This will inject any mocked objects into the test class. In this case it will inject mockedObject into the testObject. This was mentioned above but here is the code.

Answer 5

Posting a few examples based on the above approaches

With Spring:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:context.xml" })
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class TestServiceTest {
    @InjectMocks
    private TestService testService;
    @Mock
    private TestService2 testService2;
}

Without Spring:

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class TestServiceTest {
    @InjectMocks
    private TestService testService = new TestServiceImpl();
    @Mock
    private TestService2 testService2;
}

Answer 6

Below code works with autowiring - it is not the shortest version but useful when it should work only with standard spring/mockito jars.

<bean id="dao" class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">
   <property name="target"> <bean class="org.mockito.Mockito" factory-method="mock"> <constructor-arg value="com.package.Dao" /> </bean> </property>
   <property name="proxyInterfaces"> <value>com.package.Dao</value> </property>
</bean>