Matchers.any() for null value in Mockito

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Avinash Jadhav picture Avinash Jadhav · Sep 29, 2015 · Viewed 82.5k times · Source

Suppose I am having this object objectDemo which calls to the method objectDemoMethod with 2 parameters String and null. Now I want to verify that this method was called with Mockito:

objectDemo.objectDemoMethod("SAMPLE_STRING", null);

I have written this:

Mockito.verify(objectDemo, Mockito.times(1)).objectDemoMethod(Matchers.any(String.class), null);

but it's giving an error:

Invalid use of argument matchers for null value.

Is there any another way to pass null value?

Answer

Tunaki picture Tunaki · Sep 29, 2015

The error message you are getting is expected since you are using argument matcher for only one argument and not the other. From Matchers Javadoc:

If you are using argument matchers, all arguments have to be provided by matchers.

Therefore, the fix is to use a matcher for the second parameter of the method as well. In this case, it would be a matcher matching null. Depending on the version of Mockito and Java, you can have:

  • Starting with Mockito 2, you can use ArgumentMatchers.isNull(). This works with Java 8 and above:

    verify(objectDemo, times(1)).objectDemoMethod(any(String.class), isNull());

    Note that if you're running with Java 7 or older, you'll need an explicit cast to make this work, because the type inference in those versions of Java does not take into account the types of the method called:

    verify(objectDemo, times(1)).objectDemoMethod(any(String.class), (String) isNull());

  • If you're using Mockito 1, you can use the Matchers.isNull(clazz) instead:

    verify(objectDemo, times(1)).objectDemoMethod(any(String.class), isNull(String.class));

For the Java ≤ 7 or Mockito 1 cases, the examples uses a case where the second parameter was of type String: it would need to be replaced with the actual type of the method parameter.

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