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tamird14
tamird14

Reputation: 501

Mockito exceptions in stubbed method

If I have a function a() that can throw exceptions, and I want to mock it. If I write

Mockito.when(a()).callRealMethod()

the compiler tells me to add try-catch block or to add the throw declerations. But I don't want to call the method a() in that line, I just want to make sure that when I call the method somewhere later in the test, it will call the real method, and then I will add try-catch. How to do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1150

Answers (1)

Jeff Bowman
Jeff Bowman

Reputation: 95614

It is common practice to add a throws Exception note to all test methods, as the framework will automatically fail the test if any unexpected exception is thrown. This allows you to call/mock any method that throws an Exception without explicitly writing error-handling code.

For JUnit:

@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class YourTest {
  @Before public void setUp() throws Exception {
    // ...
  }

  @Test public void fooShouldDoBar() throws Exception {
    // ...
  }
}

Upvotes: 2

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