Why can't you set up the test just like you would in real life? How do you register your converters today?
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Adam Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: > In my unit tests I sometimes have the situation where I need to register my > custom converters for ConvertUtils in order to make everything behave as it > would in real life. > > Normally the conversions are incidental to the test so it seems unnecessary > to need to set up ConvertUtils. > > Seeing inside the ConvertUtils class that there is a ConvertUtilsBean, I had > the idea of using the ConvertUtilsBean in my classes, and initializing it > via dependency injection. > > Then I could mock it. > > However all access to the ConvertUtilsBean via the singleton getInstance > factory method is protected. Would it be unwise to instantiate it myself in > my dependency injection container? > > > Thanks > Adam > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
