Re: Reading from stdout
On 9/12/13 9:59 AM, White Spirit wrote:
I'm writing a unit test for a logger class that writes to stdout. The
logger class uses an OutputStreamWriter to wrap FileDescriptor.out:
mOut = new OutputStreamWriter(new
FileOutputStream(FileDescriptor.out), "UTF-8");
My unit test instantiates the logger class as a local object. When I
try to read from FileDescriptor.out in my unit test class, however,
nothing is received:
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( new
FileInputStream( FileDescriptor.out ) ) );
// do some logging
// ...
String n = reader.readLine();
Is there any way of reading what the logger is outputting?
If you allow the Logger to accept an OutputStream, then you can pass in
a new ByteArrayOutputStream().
final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
final Logger logger = new Logger(baos);
doSomeLogging(logger);
String result = baos.toString(); // uses default encoding.
assertEqual(expectedResult, result);
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