Re: [MO-java-users] How to 'mock' object with static method?

[Steve F. <st...@m3...>]

This is partly a problem with the language, which won't let us override=20
on the class side.

That said, one of the points of MO is to push you to do the Right Thing.=20
In this case, many of us believe that this sort of static method just=20
gets you into trouble and should be on the instance side, so wrapping it=20
up is a step in the right direction.

S.

DeS...@em... wrote:
> I think you are out of luck. In this case, I would try to refactor
> MyBackEndClass so I can call an instance method. I suspect MyBackendCla=
ss
> implements some interface like MyBackendInterface, otherwise you wouldn=
't be
> able to mock it. My approach would be to decouple the retrieval of the
> back-end object from the method that uses this object. Something like t=
his:
> [...]


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