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[charlesmann]

Hello everyone,

 

I am new to C++ and OOP and but due to personnel shortages I have been assigned to work on a C++ project

In order to make my point I am just oversimplifying the actual code.

 

I have created a new static method inside a class and I need to create unit tests for it. The method I have written is passed a pointer to an object that implements an interface:

//WorkingClass.cpp

WorkingClass::ComputeAndWrite(IWritter* wrt, int val)
{
  // DO lots of stuff and then write using an unknown implementation of IWritter
  wrt->WriteNow(value);
}

IWritter is an interface whose definition is as follows:

//IWritter.h

class IWritter
{
public:
  virtual void WriteNow(int value) = 0;
};

So, in order to test my new function "WorkingClass::ComputeAndWrite", I need to perform some dependency injection and write to a mock implementation of the IWritter interface I created (I wanted to "extend" the interface and use the new class variable I added)

//Mock.h - Mock implementation of the IWritter interface - I wrote this

class Mock : Iwritter
{
public:
  // I want to write to lastEmitted and be able to check its value from the test file
  // via ValidateInput. This must not be static, I need 1 per Mock instance
  int lastEmitted;

  void IWritter::WriteNow(int value);
  bool ValidateInput(int expected);
};

//Mock.cpp - Mock implementation of the IWritter interface
void IWritter::WriteNow(int value)
{
  //Trying to write to Mock's public member
  // I know it's wrong but idk how to make it right
  this->lastEmitted;
}

bool ValidateInput(int expected)
{
  if (this->lastEmitted == expected)
    return true;
  return false;
}

So, In the testfile I would just create an instance of the mock emitter, pass it and the call Mock::ValidateInput to check if what was written is what I expect it to be:

//Testfile.cpp
void ValidateComputeAndWrite()
{
  Mock m = Mock();

  WorkingClass::ComputeAndWrite(&m, 1);

  //When the input is 1 the output must be 117
  OurTestFramework::AssertIsTrue(Mock.ValidateInput(117));
}

Long story short, when I try to compile I get an error saying that "lastEmitted" is not a member in the IWritter interface. I need to be able to write to it from the interface method I am overriding (IWritter::WriteNow) in order to access such "emitted" value from the testfile and verify the value that was written is the value I am expecting.

 

I understand what the error means but I am not allowed to modify the IWritter interface code (also I am not allowed to make lastEmitted a static variable), so I would like to ask for your help on this. I understand that I need to do some reading on C++ and OOP, but I am getting to it

 

Any help would be heavily appreciated.

Thanks