NSubstitute to return a Null for an object

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Manuel picture Manuel · Nov 16, 2016 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I am new to unit testing and it sounds to me like it should be easy to get NSubstitute to be able to return null for a method but I cannot get it to work.

I have tried this for a Get method that should return a Campaign method

_campaigns = Substitute.For<IOptions<Campaigns>>();
_campaigns.Get(Arg.Any<string>()).Returns(null);

In production I use a FirstOrDefault() method to return the campaign object and it returns null if it does not exist. So in my unit test I want to test that case, but I cannot fake it with NSubstitute as I get the following error when compiling:

error CS0121: The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'SubstituteExtensions.Returns(T, T, params T[])' and 'SubstituteExtensions.Returns(T, Func, params Func[])'

I do this to avoid the error:

_campaigns.Get(Arg.Any<string>()).Returns((Campaign)null);

but then I get an execution error on that line:

System.NullReferenceException : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Answer

Yaroslav picture Yaroslav · Aug 21, 2018

In nowdays NSubsitute has method it calls ReturnsNull or expression .Returns(l => null) https://github.com/nsubstitute/NSubstitute/pull/181

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