In this post , I will cover a test code that will mock the various elements needed to complete a HTTP page request and assert the expected page cycle steps. To begin, i have a simple enumeration that has my predefined page steps:
- public enum PageStep
- {
- PreInit,
- Load,
- PreRender,
- UnLoad
- }
Once doing so, i first created the page object [not mocking].
Here, our target is to fire up the page process through ProcessRequest call, now if we take a look inside the method with reflector.net, the call trace will go like : ProcessRequest –> ProcessRequestWithNoAssert –> SetInstrinsics –> Finallly ProcessRequest. Inside SetInstrinsics , it requires calls from HttpRequest, HttpResponse and HttpBrowserCababilities. Using this clue at hand, we can easily know the classes / calls we need to mock in order to get through the expected call.
Accordingly, for HttpBrowserCapabilities our required mock code will look like:
- var browser = Mock.Create<HttpBrowserCapabilities>();
- // Arrange
- Mock.Arrange(() => browser.PreferredRenderingMime).Returns("text/html");
- Mock.Arrange(() => browser.PreferredResponseEncoding).Returns("UTF-8");
- Mock.Arrange(() => browser.PreferredRequestEncoding).Returns("UTF-8");
Now, HttpBrowserCapabilities is get though [Instance]HttpRequest.Browser. Therefore, we create the HttpRequest mock:
- var request = Mock.Create<HttpRequest>();
Then , add the required get call :
- Mock.Arrange(() => request.Browser).Returns(browser);
As, [instance]Browser.PerferrredResponseEncoding and [instance]Browser.PreferredResponseEncoding are also set to the request object and to make that they are set properly, we can add the following lines as well [not required though].
- bool requestContentEncodingSet = false;
- Mock.ArrangeSet(() => request.ContentEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-8")).DoInstead(() => requestContentEncodingSet = true);
Similarly, for response we can write:
- var response = Mock.Create<HttpResponse>();
-
- bool responseContentEncodingSet = false;
- Mock.ArrangeSet(() => response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-8")).DoInstead(() => responseContentEncodingSet = true);
Finally , I created a mock of HttpContext and set the Request and Response properties that will returns the mocked version.
- var context = Mock.Create<HttpContext>();
-
- Mock.Arrange(() => context.Request).Returns(request);
- Mock.Arrange(() => context.Response).Returns(response);
As, Page internally calls RenderControl method , we just need to replace that with our one and optionally we can check if invoked properly:
- bool rendered = false;
- Mock.Arrange(() => page.RenderControl(Arg.Any<HtmlTextWriter>())).DoInstead(() => rendered = true);
That’s it, the rest of the code is simple, where i asserted the page cycle with the PageSteps that i defined earlier:
- var pageSteps = new Queue<PageStep>();
-
- page.PreInit +=delegate { pageSteps.Enqueue(PageStep.PreInit); };
- page.Load += delegate { pageSteps.Enqueue(PageStep.Load); };
- page.PreRender += delegate { pageSteps.Enqueue(PageStep.PreRender);};
- page.Unload +=delegate { pageSteps.Enqueue(PageStep.UnLoad);};
-
- page.ProcessRequest(context);
-
- Assert.True(requestContentEncodingSet);
- Assert.True(responseContentEncodingSet);
- Assert.True(rendered);
-
- Assert.Equal(pageSteps.Dequeue(), PageStep.PreInit);
- Assert.Equal(pageSteps.Dequeue(), PageStep.Load);
- Assert.Equal(pageSteps.Dequeue(), PageStep.PreRender);
- Assert.Equal(pageSteps.Dequeue(), PageStep.UnLoad);
-
- Mock.Assert(request);
- Mock.Assert(response);
You can get the test class shown in this post here to give a try by yourself with of course JustMock :-).
Enjoy!!
