org.mockito.plugins

Interface InstantiatorProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultInstantiatorProvider

public interface InstantiatorProvider

Mockito will invoke this interface in order to fetch an instance instantiator provider.

By default, an internal byte-buddy/asm/objenesis based implementation is used.

Using the extension point

The plugin mechanism of mockito works in a similar way as the ServiceLoader, however instead of looking in the META-INF directory, Mockito will look in mockito-extensions directory. The reason for that is that Android SDK strips jar from the META-INF directory when creating an APK.

1. The implementation itself, for example org.awesome.mockito.AwesomeInstantiatorProvider that implements the InstantiatorProvider.
2. A file "mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.InstantiatorProvider". The content of this file is exactly a one line with the qualified name: org.awesome.mockito.AwesomeInstantiatorProvider.

Note that if several mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.InstantiatorProvider files exists in the classpath, Mockito will only use the first returned by the standard ClassLoader.getResource(java.lang.String) mechanism.

So just create a custom implementation of InstantiatorProvider and place the qualified name in the following file mockito-extensions/org.mockito.plugins.InstantiatorProvider.

Since:

21.10.15

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Instantiator	getInstantiator(MockCreationSettings<?> settings) Returns an instantiator, used to create new class instances.

Method Detail

getInstantiator

Instantiator getInstantiator(MockCreationSettings<?> settings)

Returns an instantiator, used to create new class instances.