How to mock void methods with Mockito

Take a look at the Mockito API docs. As the linked document mentions (Point # 12) you can use any of the doThrow(),doAnswer(),doNothing(),doReturn() family of methods from Mockito framework to mock void methods. For example, Mockito.doThrow(new Exception()).when(instance).methodName(); or if you want to combine it with follow-up behavior, Mockito.doThrow(new Exception()).doNothing().when(instance).methodName(); Presuming that you are looking at … Read more

Including all the jars in a directory within the Java classpath

Using Java 6 or later, the classpath option supports wildcards. Note the following: Use straight quotes (“) Use *, not *.jar Windows java -cp “Test.jar;lib/*” my.package.MainClass Unix java -cp “Test.jar:lib/*” my.package.MainClass This is similar to Windows, but uses : instead of ;. If you cannot use wildcards, bash allows the following syntax (where lib is … Read more

How to resolve java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException

The JAXB APIs are considered to be Java EE APIs and therefore are no longer contained on the default classpath in Java SE 9. In Java 11, they are completely removed from the JDK. Java 9 introduces the concepts of modules, and by default, the java.se aggregate module is available on the classpath (or rather, … Read more

How to set or change the default Java (JDK) version on macOS?

First run /usr/libexec/java_home -V which will output something like the following: Matching Java Virtual Machines (3): 1.8.0_05, x86_64: “Java SE 8” /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_05.jdk/Contents/Home 1.6.0_65-b14-462, x86_64: “Java SE 6” /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home 1.6.0_65-b14-462, i386: “Java SE 6” /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_05.jdk/Contents/Home Pick the version you want to be the default (1.6.0_65-b14-462 for arguments sake) then: export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6.0_65-b14-462` or you … Read more

What are the possible values of the Hibernate hbm2ddl.auto configuration and what do they do

From the community documentation: hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto Automatically validates or exports schema DDL to the database when the SessionFactory is created. With create-drop, the database schema will be dropped when the SessionFactory is closed explicitly. e.g. validate | update | create | create-drop So the list of possible options are, validate: validate the schema, makes no changes … Read more

How to create a generic array in Java?

I have to ask a question in return: is your GenSet “checked” or “unchecked”? What does that mean? Checked: strong typing. GenSet knows explicitly what type of objects it contains (i.e. its constructor was explicitly called with a Class<E> argument, and methods will throw an exception when they are passed arguments that are not of … Read more

Converting array to list in Java

In your example, it is because you can’t have a List of a primitive type. In other words, List<int> is not possible. You can, however, have a List<Integer> using the Integer class that wraps the int primitive. Convert your array to a List with the Arrays.asList utility method. Integer[] numbers = new Integer[] { 1, … Read more