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

If you're using spring >= 3.0, try using Springs @Configuration annotation to define part of the application context

@Configuration
@ImportResource("com/blah/blurk/rest-of-config.xml")
public class DaoTestConfiguration {

    @Bean
    public ApplicationService applicationService() {
        return mock(ApplicationService.class);
    }

}

If you don't want to use the @ImportResource, it can be done the other way around too:

<beans>
    <!-- rest of your config -->

    <!-- the container recognize this as a Configuration and adds it's beans 
         to the container -->
    <bean class="com.package.DaoTestConfiguration"/>
</beans>

For more information, have a look at spring-framework-reference : Java-based container configuration

Answer 2

Update - new answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19454282/411229. This answer only applies to those on Spring versions before 3.2.

I've looked for a while for a more definitive solution to this. This blog post seems to cover all my needs and doesn't rely on ordering of bean declarations. All credit to Mattias Severson. http://www.jayway.com/2011/11/30/spring-integration-tests-part-i-creating-mock-objects/

Basically, implement a FactoryBean

package com.jayway.springmock;

import org.mockito.Mockito;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.FactoryBean;

/**
 * A {@link FactoryBean} for creating mocked beans based on Mockito so that they 
 * can be {@link @Autowired} into Spring test configurations.
 *
 * @author Mattias Severson, Jayway
 *
 * @see FactoryBean
 * @see org.mockito.Mockito
 */
public class MockitoFactoryBean<T> implements FactoryBean<T> {

    private Class<T> classToBeMocked;

    /**
     * Creates a Mockito mock instance of the provided class.
     * @param classToBeMocked The class to be mocked.
     */
    public MockitoFactoryBean(Class<T> classToBeMocked) {
        this.classToBeMocked = classToBeMocked;
    }

    @Override
    public T getObject() throws Exception {
        return Mockito.mock(classToBeMocked);
    }

    @Override
    public Class<?> getObjectType() {
        return classToBeMocked;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isSingleton() {
        return true;
    }
}

Next update your spring config with the following:

<beans...>
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.jayway.example"/>

    <bean id="someDependencyMock" class="com.jayway.springmock.MockitoFactoryBean">
        <constructor-arg name="classToBeMocked" value="com.jayway.example.SomeDependency" />
    </bean>
</beans>

Answer 3

Looking at Springockito pace of development and number of open issues, I would be little bit worried to introduce it into my test suite stack nowadays. Fact that last release was done before Spring 4 release brings up questions like "Is it possible to easily integrate it with Spring 4?". I don't know, because I didn't try it. I prefer pure Spring approach if I need to mock Spring bean in integration test.

There is an option to fake Spring bean with just plain Spring features. You need to use @Primary, @Profile and @ActiveProfiles annotations for it. I wrote a blog post on the topic.

Answer 4

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

this ^ works perfectly well if declared first/early in the XML file. Mockito 1.9.0/Spring 3.0.5