Creating instances of different class types in a function

Question

While building a unit test, I'm struggling with the correct way of trying to achieve the follow: I'd like to have a function that receives Varargs of Class, and will have the ability to instantiate each of the given classes. It's something like this:

    public static void mockContextBeans(Class<?>... classes) throws Exception{
      for (Class<?> c : classes){
          when(context.getBean(c)).thenReturn(c.newInstance());
      }
    }

Can someone please point me to the correct way achieving it?

Thanks

Answer 1

You're fighting against the way Spring is supposed to be used, but if you really need to make that work you probably could say ....thenReturn(Mockito.mock(c)) . Mockito shouldn't care what kinds of constructors exist on the classes.