mocking - How to mock a Kotlin singleton object?

Question

Given a Kotlin singleton object and a fun that call it's method

object SomeObject {
   fun someFun() {}
}

fun callerFun() {
   SomeObject.someFun()
}

Is there a way to mock call to SomeObject.someFun()?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37977320/how-to-mock-a-kotlin-singleton-object

Answer 1

Just make you object implement an interface, than you can mock you object with any mocking library. Here example of Junit + Mockito + Mockito-Kotlin:

import com.nhaarman.mockito_kotlin.mock
import com.nhaarman.mockito_kotlin.whenever
import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
import org.junit.Test

object SomeObject : SomeInterface {
    override fun someFun():String {
        return ""
    }
}

interface SomeInterface {
    fun someFun():String
}

class SampleTest {

    @Test
    fun test_with_mock() {
        val mock = mock<SomeInterface>()

        whenever(mock.someFun()).thenReturn("42")

        val answer = mock.someFun()

        assertEquals("42", answer)
    }
}

Or in case if you want mock SomeObject inside callerFun:

import com.nhaarman.mockito_kotlin.mock
import com.nhaarman.mockito_kotlin.whenever
import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
import org.junit.Test

object SomeObject : SomeInterface {
    override fun someFun():String {
        return ""
    }
}

class Caller(val someInterface: SomeInterface) {
    fun callerFun():String {
        return "Test ${someInterface.someFun()}"
    }
}

// Example of use
val test = Caller(SomeObject).callerFun()

interface SomeInterface {
    fun someFun():String
}

class SampleTest {

    @Test
    fun test_with_mock() {
        val mock = mock<SomeInterface>()
        val caller = Caller(mock)

        whenever(mock.someFun()).thenReturn("42")

        val answer = caller.callerFun()

        assertEquals("Test 42", answer)
    }
}