How to create a retrofit.Response object during Unit Testing with Retrofit 2

Question

While using RxJava and Retrofit 2 I am trying to create Unit Tests to cover when my app receives specific responses.

The issue I have is that with Retrofit 2 I cannot see a nice way of creating a retrofit.Response object without the use of reflection.

@Test
public void testLogin_throwsLoginBadRequestExceptionWhen403Error() {


    Request.Builder requestBuilder = new Request.Builder();
    requestBuilder.get();
    requestBuilder.url("http://localhost");

    Response.Builder responseBuilder = new Response.Builder();
    responseBuilder.code(403);
    responseBuilder.protocol(Protocol.HTTP_1_1);
    responseBuilder.body(ResponseBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"), "{\"key\":[\"somestuff\"]}"));
    responseBuilder.request(requestBuilder.build());

    retrofit.Response<LoginResponse> aResponse = null;

    try {
        Constructor<retrofit.Response> constructor= (Constructor<retrofit.Response>) retrofit.Response.class.getDeclaredConstructors()[0];
        constructor.setAccessible(true);
        aResponse = constructor.newInstance(responseBuilder.build(), null, null);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        //reflection error
    }

    doReturn(Observable.just(aResponse)).when(mockLoginAPI).login(anyObject());

    TestSubscriber testSubscriber = new TestSubscriber();
    loginAPIService.login(loginRequest).subscribe(testSubscriber);

    Throwable resultError = (Throwable) testSubscriber.getOnErrorEvents().get(0);
    assertTrue(resultError instanceof LoginBadRequestException);
}

I have tried using the following but this creates an OkHttp Response vs a Retrofit Response.

    Request.Builder requestBuilder = new Request.Builder();
    requestBuilder.get();
    requestBuilder.url("http://localhost");

    Response.Builder responseBuilder = new Response.Builder();
    responseBuilder.code(403);
    responseBuilder.protocol(Protocol.HTTP_1_1);

Answer 1

The retrofit.Response class has static factory methods to create instances:

public static <T> Response<T> success(T body) {
  /* ... */
}

public static <T> Response<T> success(T body, com.squareup.okhttp.Response rawResponse) {
  /* ... */
}

public static <T> Response<T> error(int code, ResponseBody body) {
  /* ... */
}

public static <T> Response<T> error(ResponseBody body, com.squareup.okhttp.Response rawResponse) {
  /* ... */
}

For example:

Account account = ...;
retrofit.Response<Account> aResponse = retrofit.Response.success(account);

Or:

retrofit.Response<Account> aResponse = retrofit.Response.error(
  403, 
  ResponseBody.create(
    MediaType.parse("application/json"),
    "{\"key\":[\"somestuff\"]}"
  )
);

Note: In latest Retrofit version (2.7.1) for Kotlin, it recommends to use extension method like this:

Response.error(
  400,
  "{\"key\":[\"somestuff\"]}"
    .toResponseBody("application/json".toMediaTypeOrNull())
)

This falls under Effective Java Item 1: Consider static factory methods instead of constructors.