Testing private static method that internally uses another private static method in Java

Question

I have a class A, that looks like the following:

public class A {

  // there is a public API that uses both
  // method1 and method2, but that's not important
  // in this question.
  public Integer publicApi(Integer a, Integer b) {
    // a bunch of other stuff is done that is 
    // not related to method1 or method2 here.
    // However, method1 IS used somewhere in here.
    // For now, I don't want to test other
    // implementation details for this API, I only
    // am interested in testing method1.

    return method1(a, b);
  }

  private static Integer method1(Integer a, Integer b) {
    if(method2(a, b, 10) == null) {
      return -1;
    }
    return 10 + method2(a, b, 10);
  }

  private static Integer method2(Integer a, Integer b, Integer c) {
    // some complicated logic with multiple values 
    // to return (based on various conditions).

    // however, I want to simply test what happens
    // when this method returns null (which is a possibility).
    return a+b+c;
  }
}

As is given, my class A has a public API that's (sort of) complicated logic, that I don't want to test (for the purpose of this question). Say I am only interested in testing method1.

Here is my test code (I'm using PowerMockito):

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.spy;
import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.when;
import static org.powermock.api.support.membermodification.MemberMatcher.method;

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(A.class)
public class SimpleTest {

  @Test
  public void testMethod1Invocation() throws Exception {

    spy(A.class);

    when(A.class, method(A.class,
        "method2", Integer.class,
        Integer.class, Integer.class))
        .withArguments(1, 2, 10)
        .thenReturn(null);

    // use reflection to call method1
    Method method1 = A.class.getDeclaredMethod(
        "method1",
        Integer.class, Integer.class
    );

    method1.setAccessible(true);
    Object ret = method1.invoke(1, 2);
    assertEquals(-1, ret);
  }
}

But, I get the following error:

com.apple.geo.tart.A.method1(java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Integer)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: com.apple.geo.tart.A.method1(java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Integer, java.lang.Integer)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:2130)
    at com.apple.geo.tart.SimpleTest.testMethod1Invocation(SimpleTest.java:32)

I don't see what I'm doing wrong here. As it seems to me, there are 3 things that I need here:

Spy on A so that I can mock when/thenReturn on the static methods.
Mock the private static method that I'm interested in (method2 in this case).
Use reflection to access method1, and then invoke it.

How do I then mock a private static method (method2), just so that I can test another private static method(method1) of the same class that depends on the first?

Testing private static method that internally uses another private static method in Java

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