Mocking Extension Methods with Moq

Question

I have a preexisting Interface...

public interface ISomeInterface
{
    void SomeMethod();
}

and I've extended this intreface using a mixin...

public static class SomeInterfaceExtensions
{
    public static void AnotherMethod(this ISomeInterface someInterface)
    {
        // Implementation here
    }
}

I have a class thats calling this which I want to test...

public class Caller
{
    private readonly ISomeInterface someInterface;

    public Caller(ISomeInterface someInterface)
    {
        this.someInterface = someInterface;
    }

    public void Main()
    {
        someInterface.AnotherMethod();
    }
}

and a test where I'd like to mock the interface and verify the call to the extension method...

    [Test]
    public void Main_BasicCall_CallsAnotherMethod()
    {
        // Arrange
        var someInterfaceMock = new Mock<ISomeInterface>();
        someInterfaceMock.Setup(x => x.AnotherMethod()).Verifiable();

        var caller = new Caller(someInterfaceMock.Object);

        // Act
        caller.Main();

        // Assert
        someInterfaceMock.Verify();
    }

Running this test however generates an exception...

System.ArgumentException: Invalid setup on a non-member method:
x => x.AnotherMethod()

My question is, is there a nice way to mock out the mixin call?

Answer 1

You can't "directly" mock static method (hence extension method) with mocking framework. You can try Moles (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/downloads.aspx), a free tool from Microsoft that implements a different approach. Here is the description of the tool:

Moles is a lightweight framework for test stubs and detours in .NET that is based on delegates.

Moles may be used to detour any .NET method, including non-virtual/static methods in sealed types.

You can use Moles with any testing framework (it's independent about that).