Any way to assert whether a particular constructor was called?

[Robert]

Hi,

let's take the following method which saves a MemoryStream to a file:

public void Write(MemoryStream stream, string fileName)
{
    using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create))
    {
        stream.WriteTo(fs);
    }
}

I would like to write a unit test that ensures that the the FileStream instance in this method was created with the particular constructor (string path, FileMode mode) and that correct parameters were passed to it (the value of fileName and FileMode.Create in this case). At the same time, I'd like that the FileStream instance created in this method does nothing, i.e. that nothing is saved to the file system upon calling this method in a unit test. So essentially, I would need to mock the FileStream object so that it a) does nothing and b) I can check whether the particular constructor was called with particular parameters.

Any way to achieve this using JustMock (commercial edition)?

Thanks, Robert

[Ricky]

Hello Robert,
Thank you for sending the issue. Unfortunately, since you can't arrange a constructor therefore it would be hard to assert if a constructor is called with particular arguments. In that case you could write the test in the following way:

[ClassInitialize]
public static void Initialize(TestContext context)
{
    Mock.Partial<MemoryStream>().For<Stream>((x, i) => x.WriteTo(i));
}

[TestMethod]
public void TestMethod1()
{
    var stream = new MemoryStream();

    string path = String.Format("{0}\\{1}", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yyy-hh-mm-ss"));

    Mock.Arrange(() => stream.WriteTo(Arg.IsAny<Stream>())).MustBeCalled();

    using (var filStream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Create))
    {
       stream.WriteTo(filStream);

    }

    Mock.Assert(() => stream.WriteTo(Arg.IsAny<Stream>()), Occurs.Exactly(1));
}

However, faking constructor for specific arguments is a great idea and we would love to include it in one of coming releases. Once included,  you will then be able to do the following to fake any constructor and assert it later on (like you do it for static methods):

Mock.Arrange(() => new FileStream(string.Empty, FileMode.Create)).DoNothing();

Thanks again for using JustMock and Please write us back for any other issues that you might get.


Kind Regards,
Ricky
the Telerik team

[Vladi]

Hello Robert,

Thank you for your valuable feedback which turns out to be cool feature request as Ricky pointed out. I've entered it in our public issue tracking system (PITS) and you could follow and vote for it here: http://www.telerik.com/support/pits.aspx#/public/justmock/5469. We will notify you as the feature is ready and implemented.

Besides this as we like the feature request we would like to award you some Telerik points. Please review your account to see the updated Telerik points.

Let us know if you have any further questions or comments.

Greetings,
Vladi
the Telerik team

[Robert]

Hi Vladi & Ricky,

thanks for your answers and the points :)

Great that you could take this feature onto your todo list.

Regards, Robert