How to mock templated methods using Google Mock?

In previous version of Google Mock you can only mock virtual functions, see the documentation in the project's page.

More recent versions allowed to mock non-virtual methods, using what they call hi-perf dependency injection.

As user @congusbongus states in the comment below this answer:

Google Mock relies on adding member variables to support method mocking, and since you can't create template member variables, it's impossible to mock template functions

A workaround, by Michael Harrington in the googlegroups link from the comments, is to make specialized the template methods that will call a normal function that can be mocked. It doesn't solve the general case but it will work for testing.

struct Foo
{
    MOCK_METHOD1(GetValueString, void(std::string& value));

    template <typename ValueType>
    void GetValue(ValueType& value); 

    template <>
    void GetValue(std::string& value) {
        GetValueString(value);
    } 
};

Here is the original post again with comments to aid in understanding:

    struct Foo 
    { 
        // Our own mocked method that the templated call will end up calling.
        MOCK_METHOD3(GetNextValueStdString, void(const std::string& name, std::string& value, const unsigned int streamIndex)); 

        // If we see any calls with these two parameter list types throw and error as its unexpected in the unit under test.
        template< typename ValueType > 
        void GetNextValue( const std::string& name, ValueType& value, const unsigned int streamIndex ) 
        { 
            throw "Unexpected call."; 
        } 
        template< typename ValueType > 
        void GetNextValue( const std::string& name, ValueType& value ) 
        { 
            throw "Unexpected call."; 
        } 

        // These are the only two templated calls expected, notice the difference in the method parameter list. Anything outside
        // of these two flavors is considerd an error.
        template<> 
        void GetNextValue< std::string >( const std::string& name, std::string& value, const unsigned int streamIndex ) 
        { 
            GetNextValueStdString( name, value, streamIndex ); 
        } 
        template<> 
        void GetNextValue< std::string >( const std::string& name, std::string& value ) 
        { 
            GetNextValue< std::string >( name, value, 0 ); 
        } 
    };