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I'm currently writing unit tests to test behavior of a method and would like to partially mock the methods calling injected properties. For example:

public void doSomething() {
  int complicatedInt = 1 + 1;
  if(getProperty().someBooleanReturn()) {
    ... etc. ... 
  }
}

So obviously I want to mock the getProperty() method in order to expect the someBooleanReturn(). My question is, since I don't want the getter to be visible to other classes, but visible to unit tests, I've currently been making these methods package-private (default scope). Is there a standard for these types of operations?

Thanks!

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  • That looks reasonable... and not bad. There's a standard refactoring in eclipse for making all variable access for the object through the getters / setters. I might go protected in case you ever subclass it and people won't fuss about it being without a modifier.
    – user40980
    Aug 22, 2013 at 21:29
  • Thinking there's reasons for both protected and default, just depending on how you're using the class! Thanks for the comment, rep Wisconsin! =)
    – dardo
    Aug 22, 2013 at 21:38
  • Consider also asking codereview.SE about this with actual (rather than faked) code. For example Review of the testing code that I have written using easymock/junit
    – user40980
    Aug 22, 2013 at 21:41

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Having a class and a test class in the same package (possibly in different jars), combined with default visibility, is a standard way to get access to a class internals.

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