3. Working with Spring Tests | Mockito for Spring

Using ReflectionTestUtils

The org.springframework.test.util package contains ReflectionTestUtils, which is a collection of reflection-based utility methods to set a non-public field or invoke a private/protected setter method when testing the application code, as follows:

ORM frameworks, such as JPA and Hibernate, condone private or protected field access as opposed to public setter methods for properties in a domain entity
Spring's support for annotations such as @Autowired, @Inject, and @Resource, which provide dependency injections for private or protected fields, setter methods, and configuration methods

The following example demonstrates the capabilities of ReflectionUtils:

Create a Secret class in the com.packt.testutils package with a private String field, secret, and a public method, initiate, to encrypt a String and set it to secret. The following is the class:
```
package com.packt.testutils;

public class Secret {
  private String secret;

  public void initiate(String key) {
    this...
```

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Mockito for Spring

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Mockito for Spring

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