Testing a controller with mocked dependencies in Java Play 2.4 -

i migrating java play application 2.37 -> 2.4.1. in controller unit tests, had set controller along associated mocked dependencies before each test.

it seems getcontrollerinstance method removed globalsettings in play 2.4 can't override return controller instance.

@runwith(mockitojunitrunner.class) public class publicroomscontrollertest extends withapplication {      @mock     private myservice myservice;      private mycontroller mycontroller;      @before     public void setup() {         mycontroller = new mycontroller(myservice);          globalsettings global = new globalsettings() {              public <t> t getcontrollerinstance(class<t> clazz) {                 return (t) controller;             }          };          start(fakeapplication(global));     }      @test     public void mytest() {         result result = route(new requestbuilder().method(post).uri("/test"));         assertequals(ok, result.status());     }  } 

i know can call method directly on controller instance test such as:

result result = mycontroller.somemethod(); assertequals(ok, result.status()); 

this approach seems work fine until somemethod() relies on form data in request like

 map<string, string> data = form.form().bindfromrequest().data(); 

is there someway test route requests, may include form data, use controller instance?

(i using guice, mockito, , junit)

as pointed out me here https://github.com/playframework/playframework/issues/4876. correct way in play 2.4.x use helpers.invokewithcontext. test controller mocked dependencies used following code:

requestbuilder requestbuilder = new requestbuilder().bodyform(immutablemap.of("userid", 1)); result result = new helpers().invokewithcontext(requestbuilder, () -> mycontroller.somemethod()); 

side note: beleive invokewithcontext being changed static method in future.