I have a function with many overloads: ```fun prepareStatement(sql: String): PreparedStatement fun p...

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[mcpiroman]

I have a function with many overloads:

fun prepareStatement(sql: String): PreparedStatement
fun prepareStatement(sql: String, resultSetType: Int): PreparedStatement
fun prepareStatement(sql: String, resultSetType: Int, resultSetConcurrency: Int): PreparedStatement
fun prepareStatement(sql: String, resultSetType: Int, resultSetConcurrency: Int, resultSetHoldability: Int): PreparedStatement

What if I want to mock all of them in the same way, whereas I only care about the `sql`parameter?
Currently I repeat every { block for each overload. Is there more preferred way, e.g. matching functions by name?

[Mattia Tommasone]

i’m guessing (hoping, really) your overloads each call the last one setting default values for the parameters that they don’t receive.
If that’s the case, you should be able to have the first overloads mocked with
every { prepareStatement(any()) } answers { callOriginal() } and then mock just the last one in each of your tests
does this make sense to you?

[mcpiroman]

Thanks for the idea, I have not thought that the overloads should actually call each other.
But I have already extracted the answer to a `val answer = FunctionAnswer { call -> ... }`and provided that to each overload, so if I need to specify them all anyway, then that way is very close.

[Mattia Tommasone]

makes a lot of sense