scalamock mocking java interface method varargs

Question

I need to mock a method with varargs from a java interface

public interface MyClient {
    MyResponse indexPrivileges(IndexPrivilege... parameters);
}

and I am mocking it with

(mockMyClient.indexPrivileges _).expects(*).returns(response)

but get an error

[error] /projects/lib-scala-projects/src/test/scala/com/example/MyManagerTest.scala:67: value expects is not a member of com.example.parameters.IndexPrivilege* => com.example.MyResponse
[error]       (mockMyClient.indexPrivileges _).expects(*).returns(response)
[error]                                        ^

Also, I tried with passing a Seq of IndexPrivilege to no avail

(mockMyClient.indexPrivileges _).expects(privileges).returns(response)

Any ideas?

cahilltr cahilltr · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-20T16:01:09

Working with Scalamock 4.1.0, there's a few possibilities that I'm aware of to make this work.

The first one is using the MatchAny matcher in the expects method. This would look like (mockMyClient.indexPrivileges _).expects(new MatchAny()).returns(response). This will allow anything that is passed to the mock (from documentation Matcher that matches everything). The downside to this approach, is that it matches everything.

The second approach is to use ArgThat matcher. ArgThat, is a Matcher that uses provided predicate to perform matching. Which means that you can perform whatever validation you'd like on the input to your function. Say you just want to check that all values of IndexPrivilege is passed to the function, you could write the test like:

val indexPrivilegeLengthValidation = new ArgThat[mutable.WrappedArray[IndexPrivilege]](
                (irArray: mutable.WrappedArray[IndexPrivilege]) => irArray.length == IndexPrivilege.values.length,
                None
            )
(mockMyClient.indexPrivileges_).expects(indexPrivilegeLengthValidation).returns(response)

I'm confident that there are other ways to approach mocking varargs, but these two approaches have worked well for me in the past.

scalamock mocking java interface method varargs

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