testing a private method with JUnit / Coverlipse

[Kamal Ahmed]

I am testing the method:

private boolean isSameOutputType(int outputType, ConsoleAppender currentCA) {
String currCAOutputType = currentCA.getTarget();
return currCAOutputType.equals(ConsoleAppender.SYSTEM_OUT)
&& outputType == SYSTEM_OUT
|| currCAOutputType.equals(ConsoleAppender.SYSTEM_ERR)
&& outputType == SYSTEM_ERR;
}

And since it is private, used call hierarchy to find out that public void setConsoleAppending(boolean append, int outputType) calls this method.

Now in

public void setConsoleAppending(boolean append, int outputType)

if (!isSameOutputType(outputType, currentCA)) {
getLog4jLogger().removeAppender(name);

and if I make isSameOutputType(outputType, currentCA)) false, I can verify that :

the Appender is removed.

Now:
In order to make isSameOutPutType() false,
I force the return be false in:

String currCAOutputType = currentCA.getTarget();
return currCAOutputType.equals(ConsoleAppender.SYSTEM_OUT)

Here is my test method:

public void testIsSameOutputType() {
/**
 * This is a private method, and can only be tested indirectly using
 * setConsoleAppending() method
 */
UUID key = CONTEXT_OP_KEY;
 
AuditLogger subjectAuditLogger = new AuditLogger(AUDIT_CATAGORY,
contextParent, key);
 
ConsoleAppender ca = new ConsoleAppender();
System.out.println("Get Target: " + ca.getTarget());//$NON-NLS-1$
assertEquals("System.out", ca.getTarget()); //$NON-NLS-1$
System.out.println("to string of getTarget: "//$NON-NLS-1$
+ ca.getTarget().toString());
ca.setTarget("System.err");//$NON-NLS-1$
subjectAuditLogger.setConsoleAppending(true, 0);
// assertTrue(ca.setTarget("System.err") equals
// subjectAuditLogger.setConsoleAppending(true, 0));
Logger subjectWmJournalLogger = jLogger();
 
subjectWmJournalLogger.addAppender(ca);
 
/**
 * How can we make isSameOutputType(outputType, currentCA)) return
 * "false" and "false" is ONLY possible if
 * currCAOutputType.equals(ConsoleAppender.SYSTEM_OUT) returns false
 * keep in mind that currCAOutputType is of type String, and the result
 * of ConsoleAppender.getTarget() returning a string, in this case it is
 * the instance of ConsoleAppender
 */
 
System.out.println("GET CONSOLE APPENDER TARGET: " + ca.getTarget()); //$NON-NLS-1$
// result: GET CONSOLE APPENDER TARGET: System.err
String string = ConsoleAppender.SYSTEM_OUT;
boolean b = ca.getTarget().equals(string);
assertFalse("THIS SHOULD BE FASLE ? ",b); //$NON-NLS-1$
System.out.println("THIS SHOULD BE FASLE ? " + b); //$NON-NLS-1$
 
}
 

But, somehow, I am not getting the method isSameOutPutType() covered by coverlipse.

Could anyone please give me a hint?

Thanks,
-Kamal.