ECO, should we mock it?

I watched a video on Rhino Mocks yesterday. What a great framework! Obviously I wanted to know if I could use this with ECO so I thought I'd give it a try.

In my website's AccountController there is a method like so

public void AttemptLogin(string emailAddress, string password, string redirectUrl)
{
}

Now I could just go ahead and write some OCL to find the user, but instead of doing this I really want to separate the code a bit. So I created a class

public class UserRepository
{
  private readonly IEcoServiceProvider ServiceProvider;

  public UserRepository(IEcoServiceProvider serviceProvider)
  {
    ServiceProvider = serviceProvider;
  }

  public User GetByEmailAddressAndPassword(string emailAddress, string password)
  {
    string searchEmail = BusinessClassesHelper.EscapeOcl(emailAddress);
    string criteria = string.Format("->select(emailAddress.sqlLikeCaseInsensitive('{0}'))", searchEmail);
    return BusinessClassesHelper.SelectFirstObject<User>(ServiceProvider, "User", criteria);
  }
}

Now I can get my user like so....

public void AttemptLogin(string emailAddress, string password, string redirectUrl)
{
  MyWebsiteEcoSpace ecoSpace = new MyWebsiteEcoSpace();
  ecoSpace.Active = true;
  try
  {
    UserRepository repository = new UserRepository(ecoSpace);
    MyWebsite.Model.User user = repository.GetByEmailAddressAndPassword(emailAddress, password);
  }
  finally
  {
    ecoSpace.Active = false;
  }
}

So what's the benefit? The important thing to note is that I pass in an instance of IEcoServiceProvider to the UserRepository object. So if I want to test the UserRepository class on its own I can pass a dummy object for the serviceProvider. This means that I don't have to access the DB which would slow things down (especially if I have to keep clearing the DB down), in fact I don't even need to connect to the DB at all!

If you remember UserRepository.GetByEmailAddressAndPassword() looks like this

public User GetByEmailAddressAndPassword(string emailAddress, string password)
{
  string searchEmail = BusinessClassesHelper.EscapeOcl(emailAddress);
  string criteria = string.Format("->select(emailAddress.sqlLikeCaseInsensitive('{0}'))", searchEmail);
 return BusinessClassesHelper.SelectFirstObject(ServiceProvider, "User", criteria);
}

and BusinessClassesHelper uses the IOclPsService and IOclService in combination to get to the result. Surely this is all too complicated to mock? Not with Rhino, no!

[TestFixture]
public class UserRepositoryTests
{
  MockRepository Mocks;
  IEcoServiceProvider MockServiceProvider;
  IOclPsService MockOclPsService;
  MyWebsiteEcoSpace EcoSpace;

  [SetUp]
  public void SetUp()
  {
    //Create a mock repository
    Mocks = new MockRepository();

    //Create the mock IEcoServiceProvider
    MockServiceProvider = Mocks.CreateMock<IEcoServiceProvider>();

    //I also need a mock IOclPsService to avoid DB access
    MockOclPsService = Mocks.CreateMock<IOclPsService>();

    //Create a transient version of my EcoSpace
    EcoSpace = new MyWebsiteEcoSpace ();
    EcoSpace.PersistenceMapper = null; //No persistence!
    EcoSpace.Active = true;
  }

  [TearDown]
  public void TearDown()
  {
    EcoSpace.Active = false;
    Mocks.ReplayAll(); //Just in case we forgot, calling twice has no effect!
    Mocks.VerifyAll(); //Ensure everything expected was called
  }

  [Test]
  public void GetUserByEmailAddressAndPassword()
  {
    //Create a list of users to return from the mock IOclPsService
    IObjectList userList = EcoSpace.VariableFactory.CreateTypedObjectList(typeof(User), false);
    
    //Add a single user to that list
    User expectedUser = new User(EcoSpace);
    expectedUser.EmailAddress = "me@home.com";
    expectedUser.SetPassword("1234567890");
    userList.Add(expectedUser.AsIObject());

    //Start specifying what we expect to be called, and what we should do as a result
    Mocks.Record();

    //When GetEcoService<IOclPsService> is called return our MockOclPsService
    Expect.Call(MockServiceProvider.GetEcoService<IOclPsService>()).Return(MockOclPsService);
  
    //Same for GetEcoService(typeof(IOclPsService))
    Expect.Call(MockServiceProvider.GetEcoService(typeof(IOclPsService))).Return(MockOclPsService);

    //When asked for the IOclService (not PS service) return the real one
    Expect.Call(MockServiceProvider.GetEcoService<IOclService>()).Return(EcoSpace.Ocl);
    Expect.Call(MockServiceProvider.GetEcoService(typeof(IOclService))).Return(EcoSpace.Ocl);

    //When MockOclPsService.Execute is executed return our userList
    Expect.Call(MockOclPsService.Execute(null)).Return(userList);
    //This means we don't care what the exact parameter is, any OCL will do
    LastCall.IgnoreArguments();

    //Now go into play back mode
    Mocks.ReplayAll();

    //Create the UserRepository using our mock services
    UserRepository repository = new UserRepository(MockServiceProvider);

    //Ask for the user
    User foundUser = repository.GetByEmailAddressAndPassword(expectedUser.EmailAddress, "1234567890");

    //Ensure that we got the same user back
    Assert.AreEqual(expectedUser, foundUser, "Found the wrong user");
  }
}

Nice eh :-)