Re: unit testing private methods

From:
Andreas Kutschera <Andreas.Kutschera@siemens.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:14:57 +0200
Message-ID:
<g7uj81$s3t$1@daniel-new.mch.sbs.de>
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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