Mockito.when()

Enables stubbing methods. Use it when you want the mock to return particular value when particular method is called.(启用存根方法。 当你希望模拟在调用特定方法时返回特定值时使用它。)

Simply put: "When the x method is called then return y".

when() is a successor of deprecated Mockito.stub(Object)

Examples:

 when(mock.someMethod()).thenReturn(10);

 //you can use flexible argument matchers, e.g:
 when(mock.someMethod(anyString())).thenReturn(10);

 //setting exception to be thrown:
 when(mock.someMethod("some arg")).thenThrow(new RuntimeException());

 //you can set different behavior for consecutive method calls.
 //Last stubbing (e.g: thenReturn("foo")) determines the behavior of further consecutive calls.
 when(mock.someMethod("some arg"))
  .thenThrow(new RuntimeException())
  .thenReturn("foo