Derik Whittaker

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Ok, I am in NO way trying to say that this is either Rhino's issue or MSTest.  I am simply blogging this with the intent that someone can shed some insight as to what may be going on.  Although, since I know that the AAA logic of Rhino works with the EXACT same code under NUnit i have to believe it has something to do with the MSTest works.

So here is my propblem:

I have a test where i want to mock out and set an expectation on a repository.  When I tried the code via the AAA syntax my expectation would only return a null.  When I changed to use Record/Playback everything worked well.  Odd.

Here is the syntax for AAA (non-working)

var mockRepository = new MockRepository();
var mockStatusCheckRepository = mockRepository.DynamicMock();

mockStatusCheckRepository.Expect( x => x.GetCustomerAuditInformation( "", "" ) ).IgnoreArguments().Return( new CustomerAuditInformation { NeedsInitialDataCreated = true } ).Repeat.Once();
var information = mockStatusCheckRepository.GetCustomerAuditInformation( "", "" );
// Returns null

I was able to get this working by NOT using the instance of MockRepoistory, instead using the Static Methods.  Belows Code works

var mockStatusCheckRepository = MockRepository.GenerateMock();

mockStatusCheckRepository.Expect( x => x.GetCustomerAuditInformation( "", "" ) ).IgnoreArguments().Return( new CustomerAuditInformation { NeedsInitialDataCreated = true } ).Repeat.Once();

var information = mockStatusCheckRepository.GetCustomerAuditInformation( "", "" )

So, this may just be a case of me not fully understanding the new AAA syntax and how to use it, but I know that using the instance stuff works under NUnit... odd

Here is the syntax for the Record/Playback (working) - Can use the AAA syntax above as well

var mockRepository = new MockRepository();
var mockStatusCheckRepository = mockRepository.DynamicMock();

using ( mockRepository.Record() )
{
    mockStatusCheckRepository.Expect( x => x.GetCustomerAuditInformation( "", "" ) ).IgnoreArguments().Return( new CustomerAuditInformation { NeedsInitialDataCreated = true } ).Repeat.Once();

}

using ( mockRepository.Playback() )
{
    var information = mockStatusCheckRepository.GetCustomerAuditInformation( "", "" );
}

Cany anyone shed some light on this?  Is there a way around this?

Till next time,

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