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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Testing Web API


In this recipe, you will learn how to test Web API controllers with Moq and xUnit.

Getting ready

Let's create a class library project with VS 2017, and use the ProductAPIController methods created in the Using ActionResults recipe of this chapter. We will create some test cases for this API.

How to do it...

  1. First, let's create a class library project in the solution:
  1. Next, we will change the generated code in the project to import xunit, dotnet-test-xunit, and moq. We will also have to add the reference on the Web API project.
  1. Here are some of the test methods:
public class ProductApiControllerTests
{
  #region Tests for GET : api/productapi
  [Fact]
  public void GET
  _Returns404NotFoundResultIfProductListHaveNoItemsInRepo()
  {
    // Arrange
    var mockRepo = new Mock<IProductRepository>();
    var emptyProductList = GetEmptyProductsList();
    mockRepo.Setup(repo => repo.GetAllProducts())
    .Returns(emptyProductList);
    var controller = new ProductApiController...