How to suppress InMemoryEventId.TransactionIgnoredWarning when unit testing with in-memory database with transactions?

Question

I'm using an EF Core in-memory database and I'm trying to run a unit test on a method that uses transactions:

using (var transaction = await _context.Database.BeginTransactionAsync()) {     _context.Update(item);     result = await _context.SaveChangesAsync();      // some other stuff      transaction.Commit(); } 

However, I'm getting this error from the test runner:

System.InvalidOperationException: Warning as error exception for warning 'InMemoryEventId.TransactionIgnoredWarning': Transactions are not supported by the in-memory store. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=800142 To suppress this Exception use the DbContextOptionsBuilder.ConfigureWarnings API. ConfigureWarnings can be used when overriding the DbContext.OnConfiguring method or using AddDbContext on the application service provider.

How do I suppress that error?

Answer 1

In the code where you declare the in-memory database, configure the context to ignore that error as follows:

public MyDbContext GetContextWithInMemoryDb() {     var options = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<MyDbContext>()         .UseInMemoryDatabase(Guid.NewGuid().ToString())         // don't raise the error warning us that the in memory db doesn't support transactions         .ConfigureWarnings(x => x.Ignore(InMemoryEventId.TransactionIgnoredWarning))         .Options;      return new MyDbContext(options);  } 

Answer 2

I used the answer from @tomRedox but varied it for use in an ASP.NET Core 2.0 startup.cs file.

services.AddDbContext<MyDbContext>(options => {     options.UseInMemoryDatabase("TestDb");     options.ConfigureWarnings(x => x.Ignore(InMemoryEventId.TransactionIgnoredWarning)); });