Passing Moq mock-objects to constructor

Question

I've been using RhinoMocks for a good while, but just started looking into Moq. I have this very basic problem, and it surprises me that this doesn't fly right out of the box. Assume I have the following class definition:

public class Foo
{
    private IBar _bar; 
    public Foo(IBar bar)
    {
        _bar = bar; 
    }
    ..
}

Now I have a test where I need to Mock the IBar that send to Foo. In RhinoMocks I would simply do it like follows, and it would work just great:

var mock = MockRepository.GenerateMock<IBar>(); 
var foo = new Foo(mock);

However, in Moq this doesn't seem to work in the same way. I'm doing as follows:

var mock = new Mock<IBar>(); 
var foo = new Foo(mock);

However, now it fails - telling me "Cannot convert from 'Moq.Mock' to 'IBar'. What am I doing wrong? What is the recommended way of doing this with Moq?

score 140 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 27 '19 at 12:20

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You need to pass through the object instance of the mock

var mock = new Mock<IBar>();  
var foo = new Foo(mock.Object);

You can also use the the mock object to access the methods of the instance.

mock.Object.GetFoo();

moq docs

edited Mar 27 '19 at 12:20

Mikey

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answered Aug 10 '11 at 13:30

skyfoot

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But I need `mock.Object` to be initialized only when I'm calling `foo.Object`. What I'm basically looking for is the ability to pass to `Foo`'s constructor, the raw `Mock`, to be called when I call `mock.Object`. Is there a way to achieve this? – Shimmy Weitzhandler Jul 09 '20 at 03:45

score 27 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '11 at 13:31

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var mock = new Mock<IBar>().Object

answered Aug 10 '11 at 13:31

Massimiliano Peluso

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+1 for being only 10 seconds behind the answer that will be the accepted one. Thx! – stiank81 Aug 10 '11 at 13:34
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I would not normally assign the object instance to a variable like this as you may want to setup the mock for specific behaviour. – skyfoot Aug 11 '11 at 09:13
it was just to show .Object which was the solution to the run-time error he was having :-) – Massimiliano Peluso Aug 11 '11 at 09:17

Johnny · Answer 3 · 2019-05-15T13:34:34.257

The previous answers are correct but just for the sake of completeness I would like add one more way. Using Linq feature of the moq library.

public interface IBar
{
    int Bar(string s);

    int AnotherBar(int a);
}

public interface IFoo
{
    int Foo(string s);
}

public class FooClass : IFoo
{
    private readonly IBar _bar;

    public FooClass(IBar bar)
    {
        _bar = bar;
    }

    public int Foo(string s) 
        => _bar.Bar(s);

    public int AnotherFoo(int a) 
        => _bar.AnotherBar(a);
}

You could use Mock.Of<T> and avoid .Object call.

FooClass sut = new FooClass(Mock.Of<IBar>(m => m.Bar("Bar") == 2 && m.AnotherBar(1) == 3));
int r = sut.Foo("Bar"); //r should be 2
int r = sut.AnotherFoo(1); //r should be 3

or using matchers

FooClass sut = new FooClass(Mock.Of<IBar>(m => m.Bar(It.IsAny<string>()) == 2));
int r = sut.Foo("Bar"); // r should be 2

how do i specify several methods/params in the mocked definition? something like ```new FooClass(Mock.Of(m => m.Bar("Bar") == 2, k => k.Ready() == true ));``` — ulkas, May 15 '19 at 05:36
@ulkas You should use `&&`, I have updated the answer, `FooClass(Mock.Of(m => m.Bar("Bar") == 2 && m.Ready() == true ));` — Johnny, May 15 '19 at 13:36

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