how to mock UUID?

Question

is it possible to mock UUID? or any problem in my Source Code?

Look at exmaple:

1. MyTest Class

    @RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
    @PrepareForTest({UUID.class,ActualClass.class,MyTest.class})
    public class MyTest extends AbstractMuleContextTestCase{
    ActualClass obj=new ActualClass ();
    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
    final String id = "2f2ae98b-8fb2-4e2f-9913-65eaabdbcc29";
    ActualClass instance = PowerMockito.spy(new ActualClass ());
    PowerMockito.when(instance, 
    UUID.randomUUID().toString()).thenReturn(id);
      }
    }
   

2. MyMain Class

   Class MyMain implements Callable {
   public Object onCall(MuleEventContext eventContext) throws Exception {
            //some function
   private String updatingUpdateQuery(){
   String uid=UUID.randomUUID().toString();
   //some function
     }
   }
   

how to mock String uid?

am getting following errors

     java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to transform class with name com.MyTest  Reason: 3
        at org.powermock.core.classloader.MockClassLoader.loadMockClass(MockClassLoader.java:265)
        at org.powermock.core.classloader.MockClassLoader.loadModifiedClass(MockClassLoader.java:179)
        at org.powermock.core.classloader.DeferSupportingClassLoader.loadClass(DeferSupportingClassLoader.java:70)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
        at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.createDelegatorFromClassloader(JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:145)
        at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.createDelegatorFromClassloader(JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:40)
        at org.powermock.tests.utils.impl.AbstractTestSuiteChunkerImpl.createTestDelegators(AbstractTestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:244)
        at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.<init>(JUnit4TestSuiteChunkerImpl.java:61)
        at org.powermock.modules.junit4.common.internal.impl.AbstractCommonPowerMockRunner.<init>(AbstractCommonPowerMockRunner.java:32)
        at org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner.<init>(PowerMockRunner.java:34)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

Answer 1

In my case, I was using JUnit 5 so I wasn't able to use PowerMock, and Mockito doesn't provide static methods mocking. I rewrote a bit my production code so that I didn't need to mock UUID static method.

I used Supplier interface

public class TestedClass {
    private final Supplier<UUID> uuidSupplier = UUID::randomUUID;

    public String getUuid() {
        return uuidSupplier.get().toString();
    }
}

Then I used reflection in order to test it

public class TestedClassTest {
    @Test
    public void testMethod() throws NoSuchFieldException, IllegalAccessException {
        Supplier<UUID> uuidSupplier = mock(Supplier.class);
        TestedClass testedClass = new TestedClass();
        Field uuidSupplierField = TestedClass.class.getDeclaredField("uuidSupplier");
        uuidSupplierField.setAccessible(true);
        uuidSupplierField.set(testedClass, uuidSupplier);

        String uuid = "5211e915-c3e2-4dcb-0776-c7b900f38ab7";
        when(uuidSupplier.get()).thenReturn(UUID.fromString(uuid));

        assertEquals(uuid, testedClass.getUuid());
    }
}

As recommended by the author of the question, here are my imports:

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.function.Supplier;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

And here my dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
    <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.10.19</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Hope it helps someone else.