mocha developer - May 2008 - Mocking protected/private methods

Hello all,


I have a question concerning mocha''s handling
of protected and private methods. When expecting
such a method, the method is public in the test.

I expected the method to keep its original visibilty.
Is this intended behaviour, or a bug?


Thanks for your help,

Tammo Freese

2008/5/10 Tammo Freese <tammo at tammofreese.de>:
>  I have a question concerning mocha''s handling
>  of protected and private methods. When expecting
>  such a method, the method is public in the test.
>
>  I expected the method to keep its original visibilty.
>  Is this intended behaviour, or a bug?
It is a bug. I''ve had it on my own to-do list for a while, but nobody
has complained about it before, so I haven''t prioritised it. It would
be really helpful if you could submit a proper Rubyforge bug report
for it and I''ll try and look at it as soon as I can.

As an aside, although Mocha does provide the ability to mock
private/protected methods, it''s not usually a good idea, since it
couples your test to the internal implementation of the class under
test.

Thanks.
-- 
James.
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