Unit testing domain classes with Rhino Mocks

[Peter]

I’ve also been using Rhino Mocks to avoid dependencies and focus on unit testing domain classes. Unfortunately, I’m a bit stuck when it comes to stubbing a [Persistent] class.

For example, if you had:

[Persistent]
public abstract class Person
{
…
}

Because it is abstract, it would be nice to call:

MockRepository.GenerateStub<Person>()

but I always get a null reference exception relating to

Telerik.OpenAccess.PersistentAttribute.get_IdentityClassName()

Any thoughts?
(A work-around is to create a derived class without the [Persistent] property and stub that, but I don’t want to do that for every domain class!)

Pete.

[Alexander]

Hi Peter,

We have tried to use Telerik OpenAccess ORM with Rhino Mocks but with no luck so far. Unfortunately we cannot provide you with a solution at this stage. Maybe the only way is to use the workaround that you found. Our future plans are to provide a whole mocking solution that works with OpenAccess right out of the box. However the development has not started yet and we cannot give an exact time frame for this project.

Greetings,
Alexander
the Telerik team

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[Peter]

Ok, thanks Alexander.