Can an anonymous object ever be non-final on the j...

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[Constantin Weisser]

Can an anonymous object ever be non-final on the jvm?

[Dominaezzz]

Does it matter?

[Constantin Weisser]

I wanted to use it in a test ... I implemented an interface like object : TheInterface { ... }. But for mockito it needs to be non-final, so I have to write a whole class in the code. It’s not horrible but could be neater 🙂

[Dominaezzz]

I guess you could try marking it as open but idk if that'll work.

[Constantin Weisser]

It’s a syntax error 😄

[diesieben07]

You could maybe work around it using the allopen compiler plugin with custom annotation. But I am not sure if it works on anonymous objects

[kevinherron]

didn’t Mockito 2 lift this restriction via the MockMaker plugin?

[kevinherron]

or is this a special case?

[tseisel]

Do you mean that you want to mock an anonymous class ? I'm curious about the use case. Why not mock the interface itself ?

[Constantin Weisser]

I wanted to spy rather than mock actually ...

[christophsturm]

I’m pretty sure that it works if you enable the mockmaker plugin

[Constantin Weisser]

Will check that out, thanks