Dealing with UITableView's indexPathsForSelectedRows

Question

I'm not sure how I can implement that my mock UITableView object answers correctly for indexPathsForSelectedRows. In my App the user can (in editing state) select cells in a table view, which represents the files/folders of a given directory. Once the user selects a folder item the previously selected files items should be deselected. My test (using OCHamcrest/OCMockito) looks like this.

- (void)test_tableViewwillSelectRowAtIndexPath_DeselectsPreviouslySelectedCells
{
    // given
    [given(self.mockTableView.editing) willReturnBool:YES];

    // when
    [self.sut tableView:self.mockTableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:SectionIdFile]];
    [self.sut tableView:self.mockTableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:SectionIdFolder]];

    // then
}

The problem is that I can verify that the file item is selected but I can't ask the the mockTableView for its selected rows. Could somebody tell me how to handle that? Do I have to record the tableView:selectRowAtIndexPath:animated:scrollPosition: calls myself and provide the correct answer when the tableView is asked for that information?

why you cannot ask for the selected rows? you tried already the `indexPathsForSelectedRows` method and it returned nil? — geo, Jun 18 '13 at 07:15
Asking the mockTableView for the selectedRows returns always nil, but it should return the array with the indexPath provided in the first call to willSelectRowAtIndexPath. — Bernd Rabe, Jun 18 '13 at 07:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '13 at 07:58

As the mockTableView can not record (like the real UITableView) the indexPath's of the selected cell, you have to make sure that the mock object returns the correct answer for that method. So in my case the test looks now like this.

- (void)test_tableViewwillSelectRowAtIndexPath_DeselectsPreviouslySelectedCellsForSectionIdFile
{
    // given
    [given(self.mockTableView.editing) willReturnBool:YES];

    NSArray *selectedRows = @[[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:SectionIdFile], [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:1 inSection:SectionIdFile]];
    [given([self.mockTableView indexPathsForSelectedRows]) willReturn:selectedRows];

    // when
    [self.sut tableView:self.sut.myTableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:selectedRows[0]];
    [self.sut tableView:self.sut.myTableView willSelectRowAtIndexPath:[NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:0 inSection:SectionIdFolder]];

    // then
    [verify(self.mockTableView) deselectRowAtIndexPath:selectedRows[0] animated:YES];
    [verify(self.mockTableView) deselectRowAtIndexPath:selectedRows[1] animated:YES];
}

Dealing with UITableView's indexPathsForSelectedRows

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