Weak delegate and OCMock

If you switch your Objective-C project to ARC or start a new project based on ARC you could use __weak delegates. But if you try to mock them with OCMock, it fails.

Normal Delegate Mock with OCMock (no __weak)
id someDelegateMock = [OCMockObject mockForProtocol:@protocol(SomeWeakDelegate)];
[[someDelegateMock expect] someDelegateCall:@"SomeString"]
someObject.delegate = someDelegateMock;
[someObject doSomethingWhichShouldCallTheDelegate];
STAssertNoThrow([someDelegateMock verify], @"expected delegate should be called");

A workaround for this is to create an NSObject, which implements the __weak delegate and use some properties to verify:

Delegate Mock for weak delegate
@interface SomeDelegateMock : NSObject<SomeWeakDelegate>
@property (nonatomic, assign) BOOL someDelegateCalled;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *someString;
@end

@implementation SomeDelegateMock
@synthesize someDelegateCalled = _someDelegateCalled;
@synthesize someString = _someString;

- (void) someDelegateCall:(NSString *)aString {
    self.someDelegateCalled = YES;
    self.someString = aString;
}

@end

Objective-c Usage of the Delegate Mock

SomeDelegateMock *someDelegateMock = [SomeDelegateMock new];
someObject.delegate = someDelegateMock;
[someObject doSomethingToCallTheDelegate];
STAssertTrue(someDelegateMock.someDelegateCalled, @"expected delegate should be called");
STAssertEqualObjects(someString, @"SomeString", @"expected delegate value");

With this workaround you can test __weak delegates with OCMock.