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Recently I had to write some code that import a lot of content  for a customer, who on a daily basis wanted to imported  100+ news Items  into Sitecore. Importing and filling out the data field of items isn’t that complex task, or code to write. But I really wanted to test the functionality so I could guarantee and verify the behavior of my code before I released into a running LIVE environment. So I’ve sat myself the goal to extend Sitecore Fakes so I could test against and “Database” in memory instead of cleaning the Sitecore solution every time I’ve ran a test import.

An Example of a simple import code could look something like this

using (new SecurityDisabler())
{
subNode = homeItem.Add("SubNode", templateId);
using (new EditContext(subNode))
{
subNode[fieldIdA] = "test";
subNode[fieldIdB] = "testBBB";
}
}

To do this I’ve had to include some more section in the App.config for the test project. The section is listed below are the changes I’ve added

<authentication defaultProvider="forms">
 <providers>
 <clear />
 <add name="forms" type="Sitecore.Security.Authentication.FormsAuthenticationProvider, Sitecore.Kernel" />
 </providers>
 </authentication>
 <authorization defaultProvider="sql">
 <providers>
 <clear/>
 <add name="sql" type="Sitecore.Fakes.ConfigurationFakes.FakeAutheorizationProvider, Sitecore.Fakes" />
 </providers>
 </authorization>
 <domainManager defaultProvider="file">
 <providers>
 <clear />
 <add name="file" type="Sitecore.Fakes.ConfigurationFakes.FakeDomainProvider, Sitecore.Fakes" />
 </providers>
 </domainManager>
 <accessRights defaultProvider="config">
 <providers>
 <clear />
 <add name="config" type="Sitecore.Fakes.ConfigurationFakes.FakeAccessRight,Sitecore.Fakes" />
 </providers>
 </accessRights>

As you can see the Sitecore Fakes comes with som substitutes from the original configuration section, this implements dummy functionality and helps keeping the app.config file to a minimum. These includes

Sitecore.Fakes.Config.FakeAutheorizationProvider

Sitecore.Fakes.Config.FakeDomainProvider

Sitecore.Fakes.Config.FakeAccessRight

Also the itemprovider have been extended so it now overrides the base functionality for Item.Add(..)

public override Item AddFromTemplate(string itemName, ID templateId, Item destination, ID newId)
 {
 FakeDatabase fakeDatabase = Factory.GetDatabase(destination.Database.Name) as FakeDatabase;
 FakeItem child = new FakeItem(newId, templateId, itemName, fakeDatabase.Name);
 FakeItem fakeParent = destination as FakeItem;
 fakeParent.AddChild(child);
 fakeDatabase.FakeAddItem(child);
 return child;
 }

With these change in place we can now run our test from the beginning.

public void CreateAndEditItemTest()
 {
 //setup database so we have a rood node to add our content to
 var homeFakeItem = new FakeItem();
 Item homeItem = (Item) homeFakeItem;

 //Define some Field IDs
 TemplateID templateId = new TemplateID(ID.NewID);
 Item subNode;
 ID fieldIdA = ID.NewID;
 ID fieldIdB = ID.NewID;

//add and edit the ite,
 using (new SecurityDisabler())
 {
 subNode = homeItem.Add("SubNode", templateId);
 using (new EditContext(subNode))
 {
 subNode[fieldIdA] = "test";
 subNode[fieldIdB] = "testBBB";
 }

}
 subNode[fieldIdA].ShouldAllBeEquivalentTo("test");
 subNode[fieldIdB].ShouldAllBeEquivalentTo("testBBB"); ;
 }

If you need more then one database or another then “web” which is default for Sitecore Fakes either alter or add one more to the DataBase section of your test project so it look like something like below.

<databases>
<database id="web" singleInstance="true" type="Sitecore.Fakes.FakeDatabase, Sitecore.Fakes">
<param desc="name">$(id)</param>
</database>
<database id="master" singleInstance="true" type="Sitecore.Fakes.FakeDatabase, Sitecore.Fakes">
<param desc="name">$(id)</param>
</database>
 </databases>

You Can download Sitecore fakes from github here: https://github.com/istern/Sitecore-Fakes