In gmock, Is there a way to have mock object return an instance of an user defined object?

Question

For UT purposes, I am trying to Mock out a function that returns a vector of user defined structs.

std::vector<myStruct> myClass::foo()

In gmock, Is there a way to do something like this:

 std::vector<myStruct> TestVector;
 //code to populate my vector ....

 ON_CALL(MockMyClass, foo()).WillByDefault(Return(TestVector))

I couldn't find anything in the gmock cookbook, it looks like the return values are all primitives. Thanks

Answer 1

I ended up using ReturnPointee

https://code.google.com/p/googlemock/wiki/CookBook#Returning_Live_Values_from_Mock_Methods

std::vector * ptr;

//instantiate and populate vector...

ON_CALL(MockMyClass, foo()).WillByDefault(ReturnPointee(ptr));