Dependency Injection with XUnit and ASP.NET Core 1.0

Question

I am trying to figure out how I can use dependency injection with XUnit. My goal is to be able to inject my ProductRepository into my test class.

Here is the code I am trying:

public class DatabaseFixture : IDisposable
{
    private readonly TestServer _server;

    public DatabaseFixture()
    {
        _server = new TestServer(TestServer.CreateBuilder().UseStartup<Startup>());
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        // ... clean up test data from the database ...
    }
}

public class MyTests : IClassFixture<DatabaseFixture>
{
    DatabaseFixture _fixture;
    public ICustomerRepository _repository { get; set; }

    public MyTests(DatabaseFixture fixture, ICustomerRepository repository)
    {
        _fixture = fixture;
        _repository = repository;
    }
}

Here is the error: The following constructor parameters did not have matching fixture data (ICustomerRepository repository)

This leads me to believe that XUnit doens't support dependency injection, only if it is a Fixture.

Can someone give me a way of getting an instance of ProductRepository in my test class using XUnit? I believe I am correctly starting up a test server so Startup.cs runs and configures the DI.

Answer 1

Well, I don't think it is possible to access the container of the SUT. And to be honest I don't exactly understand why you'd want to. You will want complete control of your SUT. That means you want to provide your own dependencies to inject.

And that, you can!

_server = new TestServer(TestServer.CreateBuilder(null, app =>
{
    app.UsePrimeCheckerMiddleware();
},
services =>
{
    services.AddSingleton<IPrimeService, NegativePrimeService>();
    services.AddSingleton<IPrimeCheckerOptions, PrimeCheckerOptions>();
}));

The CreateBuilder provides overloads for this. You'll need to provide configurations and app configurations for the same reasons (reason being you want complete control over your SUT). I followed this article to make the above example if you are interested. I could also upload the sample to my GitHub if you want?

Let me know if it helped.

Update GitHub sample: https://github.com/DannyvanderKraan/ASPNETCoreAndXUnit