How can I simulate a socket disconnection?

Question

My application uploads files to server of my client, but he want special "pause upload" function. I cant simply close connection, not even kill process - he need to lost connection otherwise his server application delete unfinished file - so i have to simulate in code "cable unplug" - do you have any suggestion? thanks for your help and sorry for my english :) jirka

Answer 1

You can use Mockito to create a Socket mock for your unit tests, as suggested on this question: Testing Java Sockets