.Net Core Unit Testing - Mock IOptions

Jak

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I have a .NET core rest api service and controller. I'm using xUnitTest to test the controller and service.
Service has a constructor argument of IOptions where AppSettings is my class for config settings.

In my unit test project to test the service/controller. I'm not able to mock/initialize an instance of IOptions to satisfy the constructor of my controller:

public class SampleRepoTests
{
    private IOptions<SampleOptions> _options;
    private SampleRepo _sampleRepo;


    public SampleRepoTests()
    {
        //Not sure how to populate IOptions<SampleOptions> here
        _options = options;

        _sampleRepo = new SampleRepo(_options);
    }
}

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Posted On: 24-Apr-2020 04:55

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Use Microsoft.Extensions.Options.Options

- beginer 25-Apr-2020 01:59

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Alice

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Use Helper class Microsoft.Extensions.Options.Options

Options.Create() a wrapper around an instance of TOptions to return itself as IOptions

SampleOptions sampleOptions = new SampleOptions() { ConnectionString = "..." };
IOptions<SampleOptions> options = Options.Create(sampleOptions);

Posted On: 25-Apr-2020 02:03

Smith

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Check following code:

public class SampleRepoTests
{
    private IOptions<SampleOptions> _options;
    private SampleRepo _sampleRepo;


    public SampleRepoTests()
    {
        // mock the settings here
        var sampleOptions = new SampleOptions(){ /* here, assign value to the properties*/ };
        
        _options = Options.Create(sampleOptions);

        _sampleRepo = new SampleRepo(_options);
    }
}

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