stubbing methods that throw a checked exception using Mockito

[Rob Dennett]

I have a class something like this:

public class MyService {
  public User authenticateUser(String username, StringPassword) throws AuthenticationException {
    // ...
  }
}

If I want to stub out foo() using Mockito, I do this:

MyService mockService = Mockito.mock(MyService.class);
User mockUser = Mockito.mock(User.class);
when(mockService.authenticateUser("foo", "foo")).thenReturn(mockUser);

This won't compile because mockService.authenticateUser() throws an exception that isn't handled. Incidentally, I don't have the ability to refactor MyService. authenticateUser() throws an AuthenticationException when it can't find the user, so I want to be able to stub out that case too.

Thanks,
Rob

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Rob Dennett wrote:This won't compile because mockService.authenticateUser() throws an exception that isn't handled.

Your test has the ability to catch or throw an exception. I don't follow the problem.