iOS accessing AddressBook Contacts via UnitTest; how to set permissions? - ios

Question

This question pertains to using the iPhone Simulator with Unit Tests. I have written a series of tests that test storing of our data, merged or not merged with data we can access from the user's contacts, depending on whether or not the contact exists. I would like a way to set the permissions such that I can test (A) when the user gives permission to access the contacts and (B) when the user denies access to the contacts. What I would like is a way, in Unit Tests only, to hard-code the permission value. I don't want to prompt for it, since that would block the unit test from running with the additional hardship that the permission remains set to that value forever.
So I am reaching out to the SO community to see who else might be testing their code's interaction with address book contacts by controlling the permissions in a Unit Test. Does anyone have a recipe which allows me test both sides of the user giving and denying access to the Address Book contacts?
I am using the XCTestCase parent class. I would be open to using something else if that helped solved this problem.
I have read through all the related SO questions and answers in this area. They are focused on helping people with writing the permission-asking routines and accessing the address book contacts in their application. I know how to do that part. I am specifically talking about how to fake the address book permissions in a unit test.

Answer 1

At first as I do this
1) in app ->
if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusDenied) ...
if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusRestricted) ...
2) for test this issues I use class of OCMock, for predefined values and methods
link here - http://ocmock.org

Answer 2

if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusDenied ||
ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusRestricted){
} else if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusAuthorized){
} else{
ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion(ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, nil), ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error) {
if (!granted){
return;
}
});
}
i found the preceding code on a handy little website called:
www.raywenderlich.com

Answer 3

// Address Book Authorization grant
if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusDenied ||
ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusRestricted)
{
NSLog(#"Denied");
}
else if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusAuthorized)
{
NSLog(#"Authorized");
}
else
{
ABAddressBookRequestAccessWithCompletion(ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, nil), ^(bool granted, CFErrorRef error)
{
if (!granted) {
NSLog(#"Just denied");
return;
}
NSLog(#"Just authorized");
});
NSLog(#"Not determined");
}

Answer 4

For Unit testing
Nsstring *authorizationStatus;
if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusDenied ||
ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusRestricted){
//1
NSLog(#"Denied");
authorizationStatus = #"Denied";
} else if (ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusAuthorized){
NSLog(#"Authorized");
authorizationStatus = #"Authorized";
} else{ //ABAddressBookGetAuthorizationStatus() == kABAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined
//3
NSLog(#"Not determined");
authorizationStatus = #"Not determined";
}
XCTAssertTrue(authorizationStatus, #"Authorized");