Ignoring mocked model calls in Spock

Question

I am testing a controller in Grails. It is using a model which has this method:

def beforeInsert() {
    if (password != null) {
        encodePassword()
    }
}

protected void encodePassword() {
    password = springSecurityService.encodePassword(password)
}

When I try to test a method that saves the password to the database it returns this message: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke method encodePassword() on null object

How do I tell the test to just mock that method call or ignore that method call?

Answer 1

Can you try something like below in your controller test.

Domain.metaClass.beforeInsert = {-> }

PS: I have not tried this

If possible please paste you unit test code as well.

Answer 2

You need to inject the springSecurityService in the controller itself.

def springSecurityService
controller.springSecurityService = springSecurityService