In EPiServer, how would someone go by testing an extension like so:
public static class LinkItemExtensions
{
public static T GetTypedPage(this LinkItem link) where T : TypedPageData
{
return (T) DataFactory.Instance.GetPage(PageReference.ParseUrl(link.Href));
}
}
What I'm trying to do is somehow test the above class with the following code:
[TestFixture]
public class LinkItemExtensionsTests
{
[Test]
public void GetTypedPage_GivenALinkItem_ReturnsTypedPageData()
{
var link = new LinkItem();
var typedPage = link.GetTypedPage();
Assert.IsAssignableFrom(typeof(StartPageData), typedPage);
}
}
The problem occurs when DataFactory.Instance is summoned.
System.TypeInitializationException : The type initializer for 'EPiServer.DataFactory' threw an exception. ----> System.NullReferenceException : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
So I've tried passing an abstraction of the DataFactory to the extension method like so:
namespace WebTests
{
[TestFixture]
public class PageDataExtensionsTests
{
[Test]
public void GetTypedPage_GivenALinkItem_ReturnsTypedPageData()
{
var link = new LinkItem();
var startPage = A.Fake<StartPageData>();
var pageDataFactory = A.Fake<IDataFactoryFacade>();
A.CallTo(() => pageDataFactory.GetPage(null))
.WithAnyArguments()
.Returns(startPage);
var typedPage = link.GetTypedPage<StartPageData>(pageDataFactory);
Assert.IsAssignableFrom(typeof(StartPageData), typedPage);
}
}
}
And I get
System.InvalidCastException : Unable to cast object of type 'Castle.Proxies.PageDataProxy' to type 'LocalEPiSandbox.Templates.PageTypes.StartPageData'.
How do you approach this?
You should depend on abastractions insted of it's implementations (you should have some facade cladd above DataFactory). Please take a look over More testability to the people with EPiAbstractions!.