Dependency Injection

ASP.NET Core – How to change the JSON serialization settings

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System.Text.Json is the default JSON serializer in ASP.NET Core. It uses the following default serialization settings: To change the settings at the service level for all controllers, call AddJsonOptions() in Startup.ConfigureServices() like this: Note: This example is passing in JsonStringEnumConverter, which makes JsonSerializer use the enum name instead of enum value. When you change the … Read more

ASP.NET Core – How to unit test an ApiController

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The key to unit testing an ApiController class is to mock out all of its dependencies, including the controller’s HttpContext property, like this: If the controller method you’re testing uses anything from the HttpContext, then you’ll want to swap in your own value. Otherwise HttpContext will be null and you’ll get a NullReferenceException. Fortunately Microsoft … Read more

Event-driven .NET: How to unit test code that depends on an event

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Testing code with a dependency on an event can be tricky. You may be tempted to directly unit test the event handling method. However, that doesn’t prove that code under test is listening for the event. It’s better to really fire the event, and then test side effects of the event handling method. Firing the … Read more

ASP.NET – How to use a BackgroundService for long-running and periodic tasks

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In ASP.NET, when you need a long-running background task, or need to run a task periodically, you can implement IHostedService or BackgroundService and register your class as a hosted service in Startup. As you may have already encountered, if you try to run a long-running background task, the web server will randomly kill your task … Read more

C# – How to unit test async methods

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Let’s say you have the following async method you want to test: Here’s how to unit test this: This is awaiting the method you’re testing. To await it, you must make the unit test method return async Task. This example is a bit simplistic. In the real world when you are working with async methods, … Read more

How to mock static methods

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The need to mock static methods in order to add a unit test is a very common problem. It’s often the case that these static methods are in third-party libraries. There are many utility libraries that are completely made up of static methods. While this makes them very easy to use, it makes them really … Read more