Is it possible to create a mock object that implements multiple interfaces with EasyMock?

Question

Is it possible to create a mock object that implements several interfaces with EasyMock?

For example, interface Foo and interface Closeable?

In Rhino Mocks you can provide multiple interfaces when creating a mock object, but EasyMock's createMock() method only takes one type.

Is it possbile to achieve this with EasyMock, without resorting to the fallback of creating a temporary interface that extends both Foo and Closeable, and then mocking that?

Answer 1

have you considered something like:

interface Bar extends Foo, Closeable {
}

and then mock interface Bar?

Answer 2

EasyMock doesn't support this so you're stuck with fallback of the temporary interface.

As an aside, I smell a little bit of a code wiff - should a method really be treating an object as 2 different things, the Foo and Closeable interface in this case?

This implies to me that the method is performing multiple operations and while I suspect one of those operations is to 'close' the Closeable, wouldn't it make more sense for the calling code to decide whether or not the 'close' is required?

Structuring the code this way keeps the 'open' and 'close' in the same try ... finally block and IMHO makes the code more readable not to mention the method more general and allows you to pass objects that only implement Foo.

Answer 3

Although I fundamentally agree with Nick Holt's answer, I thought I should point out that mockito allows to do what you ask with the following call :

Foo mock = Mockito.mock(Foo.class, withSettings().extraInterfaces(Bar.class));

Obviously you'll have to use the cast: (Bar)mock when you need to use the mock as a Bar but that cast will not throw ClassCastException

Here is an example that is a bit more complete, albeit totally absurd:

import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
import org.junit.Test;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
import org.hamcrest.Matchers;

import java.util.Iterator;


public class NonsensicalTest {


 @Test
 public void testRunnableIterator() {
        // This test passes.

  final Runnable runnable = 
                    mock(Runnable.class, withSettings().extraInterfaces(Iterator.class));
  final Iterator iterator = (Iterator) runnable;
  when(iterator.next()).thenReturn("a", 2);
  doThrow(new IllegalStateException()).when(runnable).run();

  assertThat(iterator.next(), is(Matchers.<Object>equalTo("a")));

  try {
   runnable.run();
   fail();
  }
  catch (IllegalStateException e) {
  }
 }