I want to store a database connection string for my integration tests as a user secret. My project.json looks like this:
{
...
"dependencies": {
...
"Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets": "1.1.0"
},
"tools": {
"Microsoft.Extensions.SecretManager.Tools": "1.1.0-preview4-final"
},
"userSecretsId": "dc5b4f9c-8b0e-4b99-9813-c86ce80c39e6"
}
I've added the following to the constructor of my test class:
IConfigurationBuilder configurationBuilder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
.AddUserSecrets();
However when I run the tests the following exception is thrown when it hits that line:
An exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: Could not find 'UserSecretsIdAttribute' on assembly 'dotnet-test-nunit, Version=3.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
Have I missed something or is what I'm trying to do not supported?
See instructions in https://patrickhuber.github.io/2017/07/26/avoid-secrets-in-dot-net-core-tests.html, in particular in InitialiseTest add
// the type specified here is just so the secrets library can
// find the UserSecretId we added in the csproj file
var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.AddUserSecrets<HttpClientTests>();
Configuration = builder.Build()
However note that it will not allow to run tests on build server