How to test a controller which updates what was posted to it

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This seems really simple, but I can't seem to get it to work. I want to unit test my controller's assign action. It takes a IEnumerable(Of Integer) which represent the ID's of all the objects to assign.

Here's the code I've written, I'm getting an error on the Do statement (I copied the code from Ayende's blog here http://ayende.com/blog/3397/rhino-mocks-3-5-a-feature-to-be-proud-of-seamless-do).

    <Test()> _
    Public Sub Assign_Post_Should_Assign_All_Audits_Provided()
        Dim auditsToAssign As IEnumerable(Of HvacAudit) = HvacAuditsGenerator.GenerateAudits() _
                                                                .Unassigned()

        Dim auditIDs As IEnumerable(Of Integer) = auditsToAssign.Select(Function(audit, index) audit.HvacAuditID)

        Dim hvacAuditRepo As IHvacAuditRepository = MockRepository.GenerateMock(Of IHvacAuditRepository)()
        hvacAuditRepo.Stub(Sub(repo) repo.GetAuditByID(1)) _
            .Do(Function(invocation) invocation.ReturnValue = auditsToAssign.Single(Function(audit) audit.HvacAuditID = invocation.Arguments(0)))

        Dim controller As New HvacAuditController(hvacAuditRepo)
        Dim r As ViewResult = controller.Assign(auditIDs).AssertViewRendered()

        r.AssertAssignedAuditCount(auditsToAssign.Count)
        auditsToAssign.AssertAreAssigned()
        hvacAuditRepo.AssertWasCalled(Sub(h) h.SaveChanges())
    End Sub

System.InvalidOperationException : The delegate return value should be assignable from HvacAudit — just.another.programmer, Jul 13 '12 at 12:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '12 at 13:33

I was able to fix this by changing the code to use a function lambda instead of a sub lambda and return the value directly. I'm not sure what Ayende's blog was referring to.

<Test()> _
Public Sub Assign_Post_Should_Assign_All_Audits_Provided()
    Dim auditsToAssign As IEnumerable(Of HvacAudit) = HvacAuditsGenerator.GenerateAudits() _
                                                            .Unassigned()

    Dim auditIDs As IEnumerable(Of Integer) = auditsToAssign.Select(Function(audit, index) audit.HvacAuditID)

    Dim hvacAuditRepo As IHvacAuditRepository = MockRepository.GenerateMock(Of IHvacAuditRepository)()
    hvacAuditRepo.Stub(Sub(repo) repo.GetAuditByID(1)) _
        .Do(Function(auditID as Integer) Return auditsToAssign.Single(Function(audit) audit.HvacAuditID = auditID))

    Dim controller As New HvacAuditController(hvacAuditRepo)
    Dim r As ViewResult = controller.Assign(auditIDs).AssertViewRendered()

    r.AssertAssignedAuditCount(auditsToAssign.Count)
    auditsToAssign.AssertAreAssigned()
    hvacAuditRepo.AssertWasCalled(Sub(h) h.SaveChanges())
End Sub

How to test a controller which updates what was posted to it

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