How to mock method having argument call by reference.

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Hello Guys,
Recently I have started working with Mockbox and stuck at one level.
Basically I am trying to create unit test for service layer where
mocking DAO object. Mocking work great for me but in "Create" method
of DAO I have passed bean as argument and function return true/false
also this function add record into database and assign auto generated
id back to passed arguments so I can use in service layer.

But I am not sure how to mock such method so my passed bean object in
unit test have id that I want in mock.

Thanks
Pritesh

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Can you post the service layer code in question please

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Below is contentDAO and contentService code I have just kept only
require to add content. Basically I want to store id in event table
whenever new content is added into database.

<cfcomponent displayname="contentDAO" hint="table ID column = id">
       <cffunction name="create" access="public" output="false"
returntype="boolean">
    <cfargument name="content" type="content" required="true" />

    <cfset var qCreate = "" />
    <cftry>
      <cfquery name="qCreate" datasource="#variables.dsn#">
        INSERT INTO content
          (status, html)
        VALUES
          (
          <cfqueryparam value="#arguments.content.getstatus()#"
CFSQLType="cf_sql_bit" null="#not
len(arguments.content.getstatus())#" />,
          <cfqueryparam value="#arguments.content.gethtml()#"
CFSQLType="cf_sql_longvarchar" null="#not
len(arguments.content.gethtml())#" />
          )
          select @@identity as id
      </cfquery>
      <cfset arguments.content.setId(qCreate.id)>
      <cfcatch type="database">
        <cfreturn false />
      </cfcatch>
    </cftry>
    <cfreturn true />
  </cffunction>
</component>

<cfcomponent name="contentService" output="false" cache="true"
cachetimeout="30">
  <cfproperty name="contentDAO" inject="model:contentDAO"
scope="instance">
  <cfproperty name="contentGateway" inject="model:contentGateway"
scope="instance">
         <cfproperty name="eventService" inject="model:eventService"
scope="instance">
         <cffunction name="savecontent" access="public" output="false"
returntype="boolean">
         <cfargument name="content" type="content" required="true" />
                <cfset var issuccess =
instance.contentDAO.save(content)>
                <cfif issuccess>
                     <cfset events.addNewEvent("New content added with
id:" & arguments.content.getId())>
                </cfif>
    <cfreturn issuccess />
  </cffunction>
</cfcomponent>