[Nmock-general] ExpectAndReturn too strict

[Nick R. <nic...@fr...>]

I have a situation, where I want to return a value from a method call of an
interface, but between the outer object and the interface, a creation occurs
which I am not aware of which is passed into the interface:

outer object.Dosomething(some params)
{
	SomeObject someObject = new SomeObject(some of the params);
	if(_interface.DoSomething(someObject))
	{
		...
	}
}

I want _interface to return false, but I obviously dont have access to the
someObject instance in my test:

Test
{
	interfaceMock.ExpectAndReturn("DoSomething", true, ???);
}

I seem to have the option of introducing an interfaced factory or a stub
that replaces the mock.  Do people just ignore this by creating one of these
items and moving on, or do you have a different technique to get around this
situation?

Cheers,

nick.robinson
site  : www.fromconcept.co.uk
blog  : www.fromconcept.co.uk/weblog.aspx
draco : www.sourceforge.net/projects/draconet