Can you help me understand Moq Callback?

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user9969 picture user9969 · May 14, 2010 · Viewed 83.8k times · Source

Using Moq and looked at Callback but I have not been able to find a simple example to understand how to use it.

Do you have a small working snippet which clearly explain how and when to use it?

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Ruben Bartelink picture Ruben Bartelink · May 14, 2010

Hard to beat https://github.com/Moq/moq4/wiki/Quickstart

If that's not clear enough, I'd call that a doc bug...

EDIT: In response to your clarification...

For each mocked method Setup you perform, you get to indicate things like:

  • constraints on inputs
  • the value for / way in which the return value (if there is one) is to be derived

The .Callback mechanism says "I can't describe it right now, but when a call shaped like this happens, call me back and I'll do what needs to be done". As part of the same fluent call chain, you get to control the result to return (if any) via .Returns". In the QS examples, an example is that they make the value being returned increase each time.

In general, you won't need a mechanism like this very often (xUnit Test Patterns have terms for antipatterns of the ilk Conditional Logic In Tests), and if there's any simpler or built-in way to establish what you need, it should be used in preference.

Part 3 of 4 in Justin Etheredge's Moq series covers it, and there's another example of callbacks here

A simple example of a callback can be found at Using Callbacks with Moq post.

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