Mocking a call by something defined in the method to test

[Adam]

I'm new to rhino mocks, so please bear with me, but this is my method:

 public void Foo(CustomClass1 Param1)

        {

            CustomClass2 foo = new CustomClass2(Private void method, Param1)

                { Property = _property };

            foo.Start();

        }

And I want to assert that foo.Start() was called...

[TestMethod()]

        public void FooTest()

        {

            var target = MockRepository.GenerateMock<CustomClass_Accessor>();

            var Param1 = MockRepository.GenerateMock<CustomClass1>();

            target.Foo( Param1 );      

        }

That's where I am now, but I don't see how to access the constructed foo or its methods.

Thanks a lot!

Adam

[Patrick Steele]

You can't access foo and Rhino.Mocks won't help you since it needs to
be in control of creating the CustomerClass2 if you want it to
track/stub virtual method calls. Since you have the creation
hard-coded, there's no easy way to test the code as it is currently
written.

One alternative might be to create a factory to control creation of
CustomClass2. During production, the factory would just do as you
currently do -- new up a new CustomClass2. During testing, you could
provide a mock factory which, in turn, could be set up to return a
mock CustomClass2. If "Start" is a virtual method on CustomClass2,
then Rhino.Mocks can intercept and track if it was called.

---
Patrick Steele
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele

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[Adam Van Aken]

Ok, I think I get what you're saying. Thanks very much for the help! I will report any results

[Adam]

Yes - I got it all working. Thanks so much for the help, guys!