When one should use interfaces over mocking framew...
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ursus
11/30/2018, 2:22 PMWhen one should use interfaces over mocking framework?
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menegatti
11/30/2018, 2:23 PMI wouldn't say it is one over the other... having interfaces allow you to mock behavior
menegatti
11/30/2018, 2:24 PMotherwise, in kotlin, you would have to open every class
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fitzoh
11/30/2018, 3:25 PMYou can mock final classes with Mockito:
https://github.com/mockito/mockito/wiki/What%27s-new-in-Mockito-2#unmockable
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menegatti
11/30/2018, 5:16 PMtrue, I was saying in general
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ursus
11/30/2018, 6:49 PMyea I know, but is there some heuristic, or maybe in libraries?
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fitzoh
11/30/2018, 7:42 PMGenerally at the application layer I skip the interface if there's only one implementation
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christophsturm
11/30/2018, 8:24 PMfor me mocking kotlin classes never works, so i always extract an inteface when i need a mock. and i also found that its good to have mock implementations for the important classes in my app (instead of using dynamic mocks)
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ursus
11/30/2018, 9:29 PMWhy would it not work?
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christophsturm
12/03/2018, 12:59 PMi sometimes had the problem that the methods did not return the values from the mock setup so now I'm always extracting an interface when i need to mock something
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ursus
12/03/2018, 5:00 PMthats odd, are you refering to java mockito? Ive had issue with it but mockito-kotlin works flawless afaik
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