@RealObject

[Christine]

I have a Shadow class, and I want to have an instance of the real class so I can use that for some methods. I have this code in my Shadow class:

@Implements(LoginApiImpl.class)

public class ShadowLoginApiImpl implements LoginApi {

@RealObject

private LoginApiImpl realAPI;

...

@Override

@Implementation

public synchronized List<Channel> getTopChannels() throws Exception {

List<Channel> list = realAPI.getTopChannels();

but the call to getTopChannels in realAPI gets Shadowed. What do I need to do to make the call to the real object, not the shadow?

Christine

[Roman Mazur]

Well, first of all, I would not recommend you to use Robolectric to create mocks of your application classes/interfaces. Personally I use Mockito for this.

Getting back to the business :), you might use reflection API to access your real object internals, yet again, mockito will free you from a lot of pain.

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[Christine]

Using Shadow classis is not my first choice either. But there's a class that uses HttpUrlConnection and I want to use mock data rather than server data. I have taken over a project from other people, I don't want to rewrite the whole thing so I'm kind of stuck with what's there. 

I'll see if I can use Mockito for what I want to do. Usually I'm very happy with Robolectric and with the way it handles httpClient. 

[Roman Mazur]

You might also try Robolectric.directlyOn set of methods.

Like Robolectric.directlyOn(realAPI, LoginApiImpl.class, "getTopChannels").invoke()

[Mike Grafton]

That's really interesting Christine, and it's too bad Robolectric doesn't support faking of HttpUrlConnection out of the box. Have you looked at (or thought about) what it would take to extend Robolectric in this manner? It would be a huge improvement.

Mike

[Jake Wharton]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Mike Grafton <mi...@pivotallabs.com> wrote:

That's really interesting Christine, and it's too bad Robolectric doesn't support faking of HttpUrlConnection out of the box. Have you looked at (or thought about) what it would take to extend Robolectric in this manner? It would be a huge improvement.

This should be pretty easy. Just call URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory with a factory that delegates to the same crap that mocks the apache stuff.