Getting MalformedURLException when using inputStream in JUnit

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So I'm writing some unit tests using JUnit for an RSS parser application. The part I'm trying to test takes a URL and opens a connection to it (HttpURLConnection), then passes an inputStream of this into a parser (connection.getInputStream()). Once in the parser, creates a new XMLEventReader from the input stream.

I'm trying to replicate this process within my JUnit tests by having a local XML file of the same structure as the RSS feed would be. When I try to load this in using:

this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/localXmlFile.xml");

I get a MalformedURLException thrown when this line of the parser is hit:

XMLEventReader xmlEventReader = inputFactory.createXMLEventReader(inputStream);

Can anyone shed any light as to how I would correctly replicate the functionality within my tests? Is this something we would use EasyMock for (I don't know as I've never used it).

Thanks in advance.

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Can you post the stack trace? – highlycaffeinated

2 Answers

3
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I don't think inputFactory.createXMLEventReader(inputStream); is throwing MalformedURLException because based on Javadoc, that API throws XMLStreamException. It almost seems to me that your JUnit tests have some dangling URL objects that cause MalformedURLException.

1
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Could it be that you should have 

this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("localXmlFile.xml");