java - Mockito: Mock private field initialization

Question

How I can mock a field variable which is being initialized inline?

class Test {
    private Person person = new Person();
    ...
    public void testMethod() {
        person.someMethod();
        ...
    }
}

Here I want to mock person.someMethod() while testing the Test.testMethod() method for which I need to mock initialization of person variable. Any clue?

Edit: I'm not allowed to modify Person class.

Answer 1

Mockito comes with a helper class to save you some reflection boiler plate code:

import org.mockito.internal.util.reflection.Whitebox;

//...

@Mock
private Person mockedPerson;
private Test underTest;

// ...

@Test
public void testMethod() {
    Whitebox.setInternalState(underTest, "person", mockedPerson);
    // ...
}

Update: Unfortunately the mockito team decided to remove the class in Mockito 2. So you are back to writing your own reflection boilerplate code, use another library (e.g. Apache Commons Lang), or simply pilfer the Whitebox class (it is MIT licensed).

Update 2: JUnit 5 comes with its own ReflectionSupport and AnnotationSupport classes that might be useful and save you from pulling in yet another library.