Suppose we are trying to test the following application:
We might be tempted to replace logger and factory with Groovy's built-in mocks, but it turns out that Maps or Expandos are often sufficiently powerful enough in Groovy that we don't need full blown dynamic mocks.
Instead of a mock for logger, we can use an Expando as follows:
Insread of a mock for factory, we can use a simple map as follows:
Here, myObj is the object we want the factory to return.
Putting this altogether yields te following complete test:
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