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Is this post and as promised, we will unit test the controller we created in the last post.
So we will rewrite the controller a tiny little bit, so we can inject a child item repository, ie. creating a stub for the repository. Since Sitecore as default doesn’t ship with ControllerFactory where it is possible use dependency inject we will rewrite the controller instead, so it has a default repository it uses when Sitecore is instantiating the controller, and one it uses when testing, or more precisely you can pass one in to Repository property. The updated controller code is listed below. In my next post we will extend Sitecore so we can inject class through the contructor with dependency Inject using Ninject.

public class ItemController : Controller
{
private IChildItemRepository _childItemRepository;

public JsonResult Index(string id)
{
return Json(CreateObject(ChildItemRepository.Get(id)), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
public IChildItemRepository ChildItemRepository
{
get { return _childItemRepository ?? (_childItemRepository = new ChildItemRepository()); }
set { _childItemRepository = value; }
}

private IEnumerable<object> CreateObject(IEnumerable<Item> items)
{
List<object> objectList = new List<object>();
foreach (Item item in items)
objectList.Add(new { item.Name });
return objectList;
}

}

Now the three test cases
1. No id supplied the controller should return an empty result.
2. Supplied  with an invalide Guid the controller should return an empty result.
3. Supplied with a valid guid, the controller should return a JSon result with  the item names for all child items placed under the node with specified Guid,

Now for the Unit test class, as a mocking framework I’ve used NSubstitute. I’ve used the ItemStub I did in the this post Unit testing with Sitecore Item.  The code for this test Item is also as a service listet below.

public class ItemStub : Item
{
public ItemStub(string itemName)
: base(ID.NewID, new ItemData(new ItemDefinition(ID.NewID, itemName, ID.NewID, ID.NewID),Sitecore.Globalization.Language.Invariant, new Sitecore.Data.Version(1), new FieldList()), new Database("dummy"))
{
}

}

[TestFixture]
 public class ItemControllerTest
 {
 [Test]
 public void ItemControllWithNoIdShouldReturnEmptyList()
 {
 IChildItemRepository childItemRepositoryStub = Substitute.For<IChildItemRepository>();
 childItemRepositoryStub.Get(Arg.Any<string>()).Returns(new List<Item>());
 ItemController controller = new ItemController();
 controller.ChildItemRepository = childItemRepositoryStub;
 JsonResult result = controller.Index(string.Empty);
 Assert.That(result.Data,Is.Empty);
 }

[Test]
 public void ItemControllWithInvalideIDShouldReturnEmptyList()
 {

IChildItemRepository childItemRepositoryStub = Substitute.For<IChildItemRepository>();
 childItemRepositoryStub.Get(Arg.Any<string>()).Returns(new List<Item>());
 ItemController controller = new ItemController();
 controller.ChildItemRepository = childItemRepositoryStub;
 JsonResult result = controller.Index("invalidID");
 Assert.That(result.Data, Is.Empty);
 }

[Test]
 public void ItemControllWithValidIdShouldReturnJsonListWithItemNames()
 {
 IChildItemRepository childItemRepositoryStub = Substitute.For<IChildItemRepository>();
 List<Item> childList = new List<Item>();

childList.Add(new ItemStub("stub-a"));
 childList.Add(new ItemStub("stub-b"));
 childList.Add(new ItemStub("stub-c"));
 childList.Add(new ItemStub("stub-d"));

Guid itemGuid = Guid.NewGuid();
 childItemRepositoryStub.Get(itemGuid.ToString()).Returns(childList);
 ItemController controller = new ItemController();
 controller.ChildItemRepository = childItemRepositoryStub;
 JsonResult result = controller.Index(itemGuid.ToString());

List<object>resultData = (List<object>) result.Data; ;
 Assert.AreEqual(4,resultData.Count());
 Assert.AreEqual(resultData[0].ToString(),"{ Name = stub-a }");
 Assert.AreEqual(resultData[1].ToString(), "{ Name = stub-b }");
 Assert.AreEqual(resultData[2].ToString(), "{ Name = stub-c }");
 Assert.AreEqual(resultData[3].ToString(), "{ Name = stub-d }");
 }

And a screenshot of the test status.

I know that there probably exists better ways to test json results, but it is out of scope for this post, and yes if it should be “clean tests” each test should only contain one assert, but is left for as an exercise for you :).

In the next post we will extend Sitecore so that we can create Controllers through dependency injection, with Ninject as an IoC container. With this solution we don’t need the ugly Set in the Repository Property.