How to mock the HttpServletRequest?

Question

I have a function that looks for a query parameter and returns a boolean:

  public static Boolean getBooleanFromRequest(HttpServletRequest request, String key) {
        Boolean keyValue = false;
        if(request.getParameter(key) != null) {
            String value = request.getParameter(key);
            if(keyValue == null) {
                keyValue = false;
            }
            else {
                if(value.equalsIgnoreCase("true") || value.equalsIgnoreCase("1")) {
                    keyValue = true;
                }
            }
        }
        return keyValue;
    }

I have both junit and easymock in my pom.xml, how do I go about mocking the HttpServletRequest ?

Answer 1

Use some mocking framework e.g. Mockito or JMock which comes with mocking capacity of such objects.

In Mockito, you can do mocking as:

 HttpServletRequest  mockedRequest = Mockito.mock(HttpServletRequest.class);

For details on Mockito, see: How do I drink it? on the Mockito site.

In JMock, you can do mocking as :

 Mockery context = new Mockery();
 HttpServletRequest  mockedRequest = context.mock(HttpServletRequest.class);

For details on jMock, please refer: jMock - Getting Started