Re: unit testing private methods
jimgardener wrote:
hi
i am trying out PrivilegedAccessor class (of
http://sourceforge.net/projects/privaccessor/) along with junit to test
some private methods that process double[]
[] .I think this uses reflection to access private methods
public class MyClass {
private double[] processArray(double[] inarray){
double[] ret=new double[inarray.length];
for(int i=0;i<inarray.length;i++){
ret[i]=inarray[i]+100.0;
}
return ret;
}
}
here is the testcase class
<code>
double[] outputarray=(double[])
(PrivilegedAccessor.invokeMethod(mc,"processArray(double[])",inputarray));
assertEquals(outputarray,ans);
<code>
when i run the test ,i get an error message like
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: Method 'processArray(double[])'s
parameter nr1 (double[]) not found
This error originates at the call PrivilegedAccessor.invokeMethod(..)
can someone tell me why this happens?
Looking at the source code, it looks like PrivilegedAccessor cannot handle
arrays.
When I run your example, it breaks because it cannot find a class by the
name of "double[]" (yes, the "[]" is part of the wanted class name).
So you probably have two choices now:
change your method signature or
fix PrivilegedAccessor :-)
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