NSubstitute mock extension method

Question

I want to do mock extension method, but it does not work. How can this be done?

public static class RandomExtensions
{
    public static IEnumerable<int> NextInt32s(this System.Random random, int neededValuesNumber, int minInclusive, int maxExclusive)
    {
        // ...
    }
}

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[Fact]
public void Select()
{
    var randomizer = Substitute.For<DefaultRandom>();
    randomizer.NextInt32s(3, 1, 10).Returns(new int[] { 1, 2, 3 });
}

Answer 1

NSubstitute can not mock extension methods as per Sriram's comment, but you can still pass a mocked argument to an extension method.

In this case, the Random class has virtual methods, so we can mock that directly with NSubstitute and other DynamicProxy-based mocking tools. (For NSubstitute in particular we need to be very careful mocking classes. Please read the warning in the documentation.)

public static class RandomExtensions {
    public static IEnumerable<int> NextInt32s(this System.Random random, int neededValuesNumber, int minInclusive, int maxExclusive) { /* ... */ }
}
public class RandomExtensionsTests {
    [Test]
    public void Select()
    {
        const int min = 0, max = 10;
        var randomizer = Substitute.For<Random>();
        randomizer.Next(min, max).Returns(1, 2, 3);

        var result = randomizer.NextInt32s(3, 0, 10).ToArray();

        Assert.AreEqual(new[] {1, 2, 3}, result);
    }
}