How to mock a Kotlin singleton object?

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There’s a very nice mocking library for Kotlin – Mockk, which allows you to mock objects, the exact same way you’re desiring.

As of its documentation:

Objects can be transformed to mocks following way:

object MockObj {
  fun add(a: Int, b: Int) = a + b
}

mockkObject(MockObj) // aplies mocking to an Object

assertEquals(3, MockObj.add(1, 2))

every { MockObj.add(1, 2) } returns 55

assertEquals(55, MockObj.add(1, 2))

To revert back use unmockkAll or unmockkObject:

@Before
fun beforeTests() {
    mockkObject(MockObj)
    every { MockObj.add(1,2) } returns 55
}

@Test
fun willUseMockBehaviour() {
    assertEquals(55, MockObj.add(1,2))
}

@After
fun afterTests() {
    unmockkAll()
    // or unmockkObject(MockObj)
}

Despite Kotlin language limits you can create new instances of objects if testing logic needs that:

val newObjectMock = mockk<MockObj>()

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