How to Mock HttpContext to set Response.Cookie.Append() in UnitTest

Question

I need to mock HttpContext and append cookies to validate in controller.

Here is the unit Test I am trying but its failing with null exception.

HomeController.ControllerContext = new ControllerContext();
HomeController.ControllerContext.HttpContext = new DefaultHttpContext();
HomeController.ControllerContext.HttpContext.Response.Cookies.Append("mycookie", cookieValue, cookieOptions);

Here is the my controler where I am checking cooking null.

 public async Task<myDto> Identify() {

    // Get identifier from client
    var identifier = identifiersService.GetIdentifier(HttpContext);
    if (!await identifiersService.IsValidAsync(identifier)) {
        if (HttpContext != null && HttpContext.Request.Cookies["mycookie"] != null) {
            HttpContext.Response.Cookies.Delete("mycookie");
        }
        throw new MyException(Factory.INVALID);
    }

Any suggestion on how I can pass cookie from unittest to Controller to test. Thank you

Answer 1

You are setting the cookie on the response while you are checking it on the request.

1. Mock the Cookies collection on the request
2. Pass the mocked HttpContext to the ControllerContext

var cookiesMock = new Mock<IRequestCookieCollection>();
cookiesMock.SetupGet(c => c["mycookie"]).Returns(cookieValue);

var httpContextMock = new Mock<HttpContext>();
httpContextMock.Setup(ctx => ctx.Request.Cookies).Returns(cookiesMock.Object);

HomeController.ControllerContext = new ControllerContext()
{
    HttpContext = httpContextMock.Object
};

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UPDATE #1

If cookies is available then I need to delete the cookie. How I can I mock Response.Cookies.Delete()?

Quite similarly what we did with the request cookies

var responseCookiesMock = new Mock<IResponseCookies>();
responseCookiesMock.Setup(c => c.Delete("mycookie"))
                   .Verifiable();
httpContextMock.Setup(ctx => ctx.Response.Cookies)
               .Returns(responseCookiesMock.Object);

So, the full code would look like this

const string CookieKey = "mycookie";
var requestCookiesMock = new Mock<IRequestCookieCollection>();
requestCookiesMock.SetupGet(c => c[CookieKey]).Returns(cookieValue);

var responseCookiesMock = new Mock<IResponseCookies>();
responseCookiesMock.Setup(c => c.Delete(CookieKey)).Verifiable();

var httpContextMock = new Mock<HttpContext>();
httpContextMock.Setup(ctx => ctx.Request.Cookies)
                .Returns(requestCookiesMock.Object);
httpContextMock.Setup(ctx => ctx.Response.Cookies)
                .Returns(responseCookiesMock.Object);

HomeController.ControllerContext = new ControllerContext()
{
    HttpContext = httpContextMock.Object
};