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Android Studio – Android mokito When(), thenReturn() is not working

I am writing test code using Android Mockito framework. I wrote the code to mock SharedPreference in the class to be tested. For this, SharedPreference was stubed using When() thenReturn(). As a result of debugging, null is continuously returned and the app dies with NullPointerException. Here is my code :

Test Code :

@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
public class ExampleUnitTest {

    @Mock
    public Context context;

    @Mock
    public SharedPreferences sharedPref;

    @Mock
    public SharedPreferences.Editor editor;

    TestA mTestA;
    String tempStringData = "";

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);

        when(context.getSharedPreferences(anyString(), anyInt())).thenReturn(sharedPref);
        when(sharedPref.edit()).thenReturn(editor);
        when(sharedPref.getString(anyString(), anyString())).thenReturn(tempStringData);

        mTestA = new TestA(context);
    }
}

TestA.class :

public class TestA {
    
    SharedPreference mSharedPref;

    public TestA(Context context) {
        mSharedPref = context.getSharedPreferences(context.getString(R.string.shrf_file_key), Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        // return 'null'
    }
}

I think I did the stub correctly, but why does it keep returning null?

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  1. 0

    Your test class method looks a little bit weird.

    You are using following method calls within TestA constructor

    mSharedPref = context.getSharedPreferences(context.getString(R.string.shrf_file_key), Context.MODE_PRIVATE);

    Therefore you should mock following method calls

     context.getSharedPreferences(...)
 context.getString(...)

    like this

     when(context.getString(eq(R.string.shrf_file_key)).thenReturn(tempStringData);  
 when(context.getSharedPreferences(eq(tempStringData), eqInt(Context.MODE_PRIVATE)).thenReturn(sharedPref);
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  2. 0

    anyString() does not allow null objects.

    context.getString(R.string.shrf_file_key) returns null.

    If you want to allow null values as well, you can use nullable(String.class)

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