Mocking an object (HttpWebRequest) with no constructor

[Devin]

I'm trying to Mock an HttpWebRequest (from the System.Net namespace) object, but I keep getting runtime errors.  It seems that the only constructor for HttpWebRequest is protected and has been Deprecated by Microsoft.  If this is the case, how would I could about Mocking an object which doesn't give access to it's constructor?

Here is my code.  It dies when Arranging the HttpUtils.CreateWebRequest call.  CreateWebRequest is  a static method of the non-static class HttpUtils.

private HttpWebRequest _webRequestMock;

private void SetupMocks()
{
	_webRequestMock = Mock.Create<HttpWebRequest>();

_webResponseMock = Mock.Create<WebResponse>();
Mock.SetupStatic<HttpUtils>(Behavior.Strict);
Mock.Arrange(() => HttpUtils.CreateWebRequest(Arg.IsAny<string>())).Returns(_webRequestMock);
Mock.Arrange(() => _webRequestMock.GetResponse()).Returns(_webResponseMock);
}

[Ricky]

Hi Devin,
Thanks again for sending the issue.Here when i write the following:

var webRequestMock = Mock.Create<HttpWebRequest>();

It does fire up the protected constructor but fails with the following exception:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

The reason here is that if you open up the constructor using a decompiler you will see something like:

protected HttpWebRequest(SerializationInfo serializationInfo, StreamingContext streamingContext)
     : base(serializationInfo, streamingContext)
   {
     ExceptionHelper.WebPermissionUnrestricted.Demand();
     if (Logging.On)
       Logging.Enter(Logging.Web, (object) this, "HttpWebRequest", (object) serializationInfo);
     this._HttpRequestHeaders = (WebHeaderCollection) serializationInfo.GetValue("_HttpRequestHeaders", t

The solution here is to use the Constructor.Mocked switch that will skip the base ctor call.

HttpWebRequest webRequest = Mock.Create<HttpWebRequest>(Constructor.Mocked);

Once you have done it the rest should work as expected.

Kind Regards,
Mehfuz
the Telerik team