Advanced usage topics.

In some cases you need to create a mock on the fly during test execution, not as an annotated class field.

EasyMockRule provides the "createMock", "createNiceMock" and "createStrictMock" methods to create a mock on-demand.

The mock will not be injected into the TestSubject, but will be managed by the "replayAll()" method and automatically verified.

There are also versions that will create a name for the mock using the class name, but you should prefer to give a meaningful name for the mock that will make sense when seen in expectation failure messages:

    mocks.createMock("name for your mock", SomeType.class);
 
    // or
 
    mocks.createNiceMock("name for your mock", SomeType.class);
 
    // or
 
    mocks.createStrictMock("name for your mock", SomeType.class);

In some cases you may wish to create a mock yourself, but would like EasyMockRule to manage it for you.

Use the "registerMock" and "deregisterMock" to place a mock under the control of the rule, eg:

 
    // Register the mock for automatic management
    mocks.registerMock(manuallyCreatedMock);
 

Now the manually created mock will be managed by the "replayAll()" method and automatically verified, but will not be automatically named or injected into the TestSubject.

Note that as of version 0.2 this only supports interface mocks.