DbMocker - Simple Database Mocker for UnitTests

Introduction

This .NET library simplifies data mocking for UnitTests, to avoid a connection to a relational database. DbMocker use the standard Microsoft .NET DbConnection object. So, you can mock any toolkit, including EntityFramework, Dapper or ADO.NET; And for all database servers (SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite).

First, add the DbMocker NuGet packages. Next, instanciate a MockDbConnection and mock you SQL requests using a condition and return a DataTable.

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// Sample method from your DataService
public int GetNumberOfEmployees(DbConnection connection)
{
    using (var cmd = connection.CreateCommand())
    {
        cmd.CommandText = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Employees";
        return Convert.ToInt32(cmd.ExecuteScalar());
    }
}

/* Create a text file "123-EMPLOYEES.txt" with this content
   And set the build property to "Embedded resource".
        Id        Name          Age
        (int)     (string)      (int?)

        10        Scott         21
        20        Bill          NULL
*/

[TestMethod]
public void UnitTest0()
{
    var conn = new MockDbConnection();

    // The text file "123-EMPLOYEES.txt" is embedded in this project.
    // See the Samples folder.
    //  - 123       is an identifier (as you want)
    //  - EMPLOYEES is the CommandText Tag 
    //    See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/querying/tags
    conn.Mocks.LoadTagsFromResources("123-EMPLOYEES");

    // Call your "classic" methods to tests
    var data = GetEmployees(conn);

    // DbMocker read the embedded file 
    // and associated the content to the tag
    Assert.AreEqual("Scott", data[0][1]);
    Assert.AreEqual("Bill", data[1][1]);
}

[TestMethod]
public void UnitTest1()
{
    var conn = new MockDbConnection();

    // When a specific SQL command is detected,
    // Don't execute the query to your database engine (SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, ...),
    // But returns this _Table_.
    conn.Mocks
        .When(cmd => cmd.CommandText.StartsWith("SELECT") &&
                     cmd.Parameters.Count() == 0)
        .ReturnsTable(MockTable.WithColumns("Count")
                               .AddRow(14));

    // Call your "classic" methods to tests
    int count = GetNumberOfEmployees(conn);

    Assert.AreEqual(14, count);
}

See DbMocker Wiki pages for more information.

Conditions

Use the When method to describe the condition to be detected. This condition is based on a Lambda expression containing a CommandText or Parameters check.

conn.Mocks
    .When(cmd => cmd.CommandText.StartsWith("SELECT") &&
                 cmd.Parameters.Count() == 0)
    .ReturnsTable(...);

Use the WhenTag method to detect query containing a row starting with -- MyTag. This is compatible with EFCore 2.2, containing a new extension method WithTag to identity a request.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenTag("MyTag")
    .ReturnsTable(...);

Use WhenAny to detect all SQL queries. In this case, all queries to the database will return the data specified by WhenAny.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(...);

ReturnsTable

When the previous condition occured, a mocked table will be return:

Creating an new instance of MockTable.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(new MockTable().AddColumns("ID", "Name")
                                 .AddRow(1, "Scott")
                                 .AddRow(2, "Bill"));

Using a MockTable.Empty() table... to complete.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(MockTable.Empty()
                           .AddColumns("ID", "Name")
                           .AddRow(1, "Scott")
                           .AddRow(2, "Bill"));

Using a MockTable.WithColumns() table... to complete.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(MockTable.WithColumns("ID", "Name")
                           .AddRow(1, "Scott")
                           .AddRow(2, "Bill"));

Using a MockTable.WithColumns() typed columns. In this case, columns are defined using a tuple (ColumnName, ColumnType).

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(MockTable.WithColumns(("ID", typeof(int?)),
                                        ("Name", typeof(string)))
                            .AddRow(null, "Scott")
                            .AddRow(2, "Bill"));

Returning a MockTable.SingleCell() table... to complete.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(MockTable.SingleCell("Count", 14));

Using an expression to customize the return.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(cmd => cmd.Parameters.Count() > 0 ? 14 : 99);

using a CSV string with all data. The first row contains the column names. The first data row defines types for each columns (like in a Excel importation).

string csv = @" Id	Name	Birthdate
                1	Scott	1980-02-03
                2	Bill	1972-01-12
                3	Anders	1965-03-14 ";

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsTable(MockTable.FromCsv(csv));

ReturnsRow

When a condition occured, a single data row will be return. The specified typed object will generate a MockTable where property names will be the column names and proerty values will be the first row data.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsRow(new { Id = 1, Name = "Denis" });

Using an expression to customize the return.

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsRow(cmd => new { Id = 1, Name = "Denis" });

ReturnsScalar

When a condition occured, a scalar value will be return:

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsScalar<int>(14);

conn.Mocks
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsScalar<int>(cmd => DateTime.Today.Year > 2000 ? 14 : 0);

Check the SQL Server query syntax

Call the method Mocks.HasValidSqlServerCommandText() to check if your string CommandText respect the SQL Server syntax... without connection to SQL Server (but using the Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlParser package).

conn.Mocks
    .HasValidSqlServerCommandText()
    .WhenAny()
    .ReturnsScalar(14);

So the CommandText="SELECT ** FROM EMP" (double ) will raised a MockException with the message "Incorrect syntax near ''".

You can also define a default value using the MockDbConnection.HasValidSqlServerCommandText property.

var conn = new MockDbConnection()
{
    HasValidSqlServerCommandText = true
};

Releases

Version 1.26

#40 Add the Callback support to MockReturns with unit test. Thanks Tridy.

Version 1.25

#36 Accept white list of properties, with MockTable.FromType method. Thanks zewa666.

Version 1.24

#35 MockDbDataReader.GetBytes does fill the buffer param. Thanks Stepami.

Version 1.23

Dependencies updated.
#32 Update MockDbDataReader.IsClosed Thanks kiainlogicdk for the discussion.

Version 1.22

#31 Implement the DbDataReader.GetSchemaTable() method. Thanks javnov.

Version 1.21

#29 Fix Dispose method to change the ConnectionState to Closed. Thanks OlegKrymskyi.

Version 1.20

#27 Fix ExecuteScalar method to respect the Microsoft documentation. "If the first column of the first row in the result set is not found, a null reference is returned. If the value in the database is null, the query returns DBNull.Value." Thanks Andreas.

Version 1.19

Use a direct reference to SqlParser.dll. Thanks yyalkovich.

Version 1.18

Add methods ThrowsException() to throw an exception when a condition has occured. Thanks wessonben.

Version 1.17

Fix consistent NewLine detection (\n, \r or both), used by WhenTag method. Thanks martinsmith1968.

Version 1.16

Add MockTable.FromType<T> method to fill a mock table using existing .NET objects. Thanks martinsmith1968.

Version 1.15

Fix MockDbDataReader.IsDBNull when the value is null.

Version 1.14

Add 'Guid' type in MockTable.FromFixed and resource sample files.
Add a custom message when a sample conversion fails. Ex: Invalid conversion of "2020-01-32" to "DateTime", for column "Col1".

Version 1.13

Set output value for DbParameter, using MockResturns.SetParameterValue method. Thanks unby.
Fix MockDbDataReader.HasRows to return true when at least a row is existing. Thanks htw8441.

Version 1.12

Fix the fixed format (resource files) to convert values using Invariant Culture.

Version 1.10 and 11

Minor fixes to deploy nuget.

Version 1.9

Add MockResourceOptions.TagSeparator (default is '-') to allow to include multiple MockTable resource samples. "01-MyTag.txt" and "02-MyTag.txt" are two resource using the same SQL tag (MyTag).

Version 1.8

Add Mocks.LoadTagsFromResources to include MockTable samples described in Embedded resource text files.

Version 1.7

Add ReturnsDataset methods to simulate multiple tables (Thanks stop-cran).
Update the reference to the Nuget Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlParser to validate syntaxes of SQL queries.

Version 1.6

Add detailed SQL Query in MockException properties (#6).
Add a new WhenTag method (#7).
Add a method to validate the syntax of SQL queries without connection to SQL Server (only for SQL Server synt

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