How to mock DynamoDB's ItemCollection<QueryResult> using EasyMock?

Question

I have the following Java code:

Index userNameIndex = userTable.getIndex("userNameIndex");
ItemCollection<QueryOutcome> userItems = userNameIndex.query("userName", userName);

for (Item userItem : userItems) {
}

I am trying to write a unit test and I would like to mock the ItemCollection<QueryOutcome>. The issue is that the iterator returned by ItemCollection<QueryOutcome>::iterator is of type IteratorSupport, which is a package protected class. Therefore, it is impossible to mock the return type of this iterator. What can I do instead?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The previous answer is valid. However, if you can mock Iterable instead of ItemCollection, your life will be easier.

    Iterable<Item> mockItemCollection = createMock(Iterable.class);
    Iterator<Item> mockIterator = createMock(Iterator.class);

    Item mockItem = new Item().with("attributeName", "Hello World");

    expect(mockItemCollection.iterator()).andReturn(mockIterator);
    expect(mockIterator.hasNext()).andReturn(true).andReturn(false);
    expect(mockIterator.next()).andReturn(mockItem);

    replay(mockItemCollection, mockIterator);

    for(Item i : mockItemCollection) {
        assertSame(i, mockItem);
    }

    verify(mockItemCollection, mockIterator);

BTW, I'm a big fan of static imports at least in the test code. It makes it more readable.

Reading the AWS code, I would consider their code to have a design flaw. It doesn't make sense to return a package scope class from a public interface. It's probably something that should be raised as an issue to them.

You could also always wrap the ItemCollection into a correctly typed class:

public class ItemCollectionWrapper<R> implements Iterable<Item> {

    private ItemCollection<R> wrapped;

    public ItemCollectionWrapper(ItemCollection<R> wrapped) {
        this.wrapped = wrapped;
    }

    public Iterator<Item> iterator() {
        return wrapped.iterator();
    }
}