Is there any way to access a Mocked object created from some other factory function.

[Alex Shaver]

Suppose I have

class Foo{
public:
  Foo():mBar{someFactory::createBar(std::string type)}{}

  void doStuff(){mBar->stuff();}

private:
  std::unique_ptr<Bar> mBar;
};

class Bar{
public:
  virtual void stuff(){}
};

class MockBar : public Bar{
public:
  MOCK_METHOD0(stuff, void());
};

TEST(Foo,DoStuff){
  Foo foo;

  EXPECT_CALL(???, stuff());

  foo.doStuff();
}

Where someFactory is a factory defined elsewhere that returns subclasses of bar depending on 'type.' Suppose I've managed to get that factory to return a MockBar. Is there any way to get that mock object's address to be able to set expectations? 

[Samuel Benzaquen]

If you know it is a MockBar, you can just downcast with static_cast<MockBar*>(foo.mBar.get()) and use that pointer.

You might also be reaching a point where mocks don't help you anymore. Maybe a fake can solve your problem?

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[Alex Shaver]

mBar is private, so I can't just access it like that. I think you may be right that this is a case where there's not much I can do from the google mock suite, but I just wanted to be sure in case someone could think of something (say, for instance, the mock objects register themselves to the test framework somehow that I could access via something like currentTest().getMockedObjects<MockBar>(). (not that any of these exist, but that's the kind of thought)

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