xcodeprimitiveocmock

Passing primitives to an OCMock's stub


I'm learning how to use OCMock to test my iPhone's project and I have this scenario: a HeightMap class with a getHeightAtX:andY: method, and a Render class using HeightMap. I'm trying to unit test Render using some HeightMap mocks. This works:

id mock = [OCMockObject mockForClass:[Chunk class]];
int h = 0;
[[[mock stub] andReturnValue:OCMOCK_VALUE(h)] getHeightAtX:0 andY:0];

Of course, works only for x=0 and y=0. I want to test using a "flat" height map. This means I need to do something like this:

id chunk = [OCMockObject mockForClass:[Chunk class]];
int h = 0;
[[[chunk stub] andReturnValue:OCMOCK_VALUE(h)] getHeightAtX:[OCMArg any] andY:[OCMArg any]];

But this raises two compilation warnings:

warning: passing argument 1 of 'getHeightAtX:andY:' makes integer from pointer without a cast

and a runtime error:

unexpected method invoked: 'getHeightAtX:0 andY:0 stubbed: getHeightAtX:15545040 andY:15545024'

What am I missing? I found no way to pass a anyValue to this mock.


Solution

  • OCMock doesn't currently support loose matching of primitive arguments. There's a discussion about potential changes to support this on the OCMock forums, though it seems to have stalled.

    The only solution I've found is to structure my tests in such a way that I know the primitive values that will be passed in, though it's far from ideal.