Returning value that was passed into a method

Question

I have a method on an interface:

string DoSomething(string whatever); 

I want to mock this with MOQ, so that it returns whatever was passed in - something like:

_mock.Setup( theObject => theObject.DoSomething( It.IsAny<string>( ) ) )    .Returns( [the parameter that was passed] ) ; 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can use a lambda with an input parameter, like so:

.Returns((string myval) => { return myval; }); 

Or slightly more readable:

.Returns<string>(x => x); 

Answer 2

Even more useful, if you have multiple parameters you can access any/all of them with:

_mock.Setup(x => x.DoSomething(It.IsAny<string>(),It.IsAny<string>(),It.IsAny<string>())      .Returns((string a, string b, string c) => string.Concat(a,b,c)); 

You always need to reference all the arguments, to match the method's signature, even if you're only going to use one of them.