Using Mockito s generic any method

Question

I have an interface with a method that expects an array of Foo   public interface IBar     void doStuff Foo   arr       I am mocking this interface using Mockito  and I d like to assert that doStuff   is called  but I don t want to validate what argument are passed -  don t care    How do I write the following code using any    the generic method  instead of anyObject     IBar bar   mock IBar class       verify bar  doStuff  Foo    anyObject

User · Answer

As I needed to use this feature for my latest project (at one point we updated from 1.10.19), just to keep the users (that are already using the mockito-core version 2.1.0 or greater) up to date, the static methods from the above answers should be taken from ArgumentMatchers class:

import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.isA;
import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;

Please keep this in mind if you are planning to keep your Mockito artefacts up to date as possibly starting from version 3, this class may no longer exist:

As per 2.1.0 and above, Javadoc of org.mockito.Matchers states:

Use org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers. This class is now deprecated in order to avoid a name clash with Hamcrest * org.hamcrest.Matchers class. This class will likely be removed in version 3.0.

I have written a little article on mockito wildcards if you're up for further reading.

User · Answer

You can use Mockito isA   for that   import static org mockito Matchers isA  import static org mockito Mockito verify   verify bar  doStuff isA Foo   class      http   site mockito org mockito docs current org mockito Matchers html isA java lang Class

User · Answer

Since Java 8 you can use the argument-less any method and the type argument will get inferred by the compiler  verify bar  doStuff any       Explanation The new thing in Java 8 is that the target type of an expression will be used to infer type parameters of its sub-expressions  Before Java 8 only arguments to methods where used for type parameter inference  most of the time   In this case the parameter type of doStuff will be the target type for any    and the return value type of any   will get chosen to match that argument type  This mechanism was added in Java 8 mainly to be able to compile lambda expressions  but it improves type inferences generally   Primitive types This doesn t work with primitive types  unfortunately  public interface IBar       void doPrimitiveStuff int i      verify bar  doPrimitiveStuff any        Compiles but throws NullPointerException verify bar  doPrimitiveStuff anyInt        This is what you have to do instead  The problem is that the compiler will infer Integer as the return value type of any    Mockito will not be aware of this  due to type erasure  and return the default value for reference types  which is null  The runtime will try to unbox the return value by calling the intValue method on it before passing it to doStuff  and the exception gets thrown

User · Answer

This should work  import static org mockito ArgumentMatchers any  import static org mockito Mockito verify   verify bar  DoStuff any Foo   class

[java] Using Mockito's generic "any()" method

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