unable to put spy on HttpSession / Mockito

Question

I want partial mocking on Httpsession but for that i need to spy it instead of mocking it , and it's a interface I can't get without request object which is already mocked.

please help.

In another word , how can I get a object of HttpSession without HttpServletRequest object.

MORE DETAIL::

There is a servlet I want to test , servlet have session and puts "loginBean" (which contain loged in user related info) inside session, which I have mocked already and working fine , now IN GUI level , there are 2 tab , DetailSet1 , detailsSet2 , when you enter data of DetailSet1 , it get saved in session and also does some business logic , now it comes to DetailsSet2 , you already have DetailSet1 in session , so it got all it needs , data is saved in DB. No it's obvious I have to mock HttpSession because I am running unit cases from outside the container , but data which gets stored is also in Httpsession , if I mock those as well , it defeats the purpose of testing. back to what I started with , I need Httpsession object to return mocked data for what I have it mocked for and it is suppose to act like any normal HttpSession object for other cases. Like , if I do session.setAttribute("name","Vivek) , then session.getAttribute("name") should return "Vivek" after that , but in case of mocked object it return null why? because I haven't mocked behaviour for getAttribute("name"). I am really sorry if I am still can't make anyone understand what I am asking for.

In simple word Partial mocking on HttpSession.

Answer 1

ok I get it. you don't really have access to the real session object and you won't do any spy. you need your home-made mock (fake):

public class MockHttpSession implements HttpSession {
  Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();

  @Override
  public Object getAttribute(String name) {
    return map.get(name);
  }

  @Override
  public void setAttribute(String name, Object value) {
    map.put(name, value);
  }


  // implement rest of the methods you will use

and then in your test you'll have:

when(request.getSession()).thenReturn(new MockHttpSession());