#2 Be able to serialize mocks

[Henri Tremblay]

In some cases it would be useful to be able to serialize a mock.

In particular, to inject mocking code to a server.

[Chris Wilkes]

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For a quick fix have ObjectMethodsFilter implement Serializable. I also subclassed MocksControl implementing Serializable, not sure if that is necessary.

[Henri Tremblay]

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I've started to implement it. Making ObjectMethodFilter serializable requires many objects underneath and custom serialization. I'm also trying to keep backward comptatibility with easymock class extension. Should be in check-in soon. However, depending on the impacts, I don't know when it will be officially released

[Valerio Schiavoni]

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A test method, might be useful :
@Test
public void testSerializeMockInetAddress() throws IOException
{
InetAddress mockInetAddress = EasyMock.createMock(InetAddress.class);
assertThat(mockInetAddress,instanceOf(Serializable.class));
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
oos.writeObject(mockInetAddress);
final byte[] itaSerialized = baos.toByteArray();
assertThat(itaSerialized,is(not(nullValue())));
}

Currently this test fails with the following stacktrace:
java.io.NotSerializableException: org.easymock.classextension.internal.ClassProxyFactory$1
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1081)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1375)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1347)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1290)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1079)
at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:302)

(this code was posted on the official easymock mailing-list, i thought it was useful to keep track of it on the official tracker of the project).

[Henri Tremblay]

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Submitted by Jonathan Locked