Create Unit Tests about matterhook.net.matterhookclient

[fluffynuts]

@cindra10 if you can inject a url for the endpoints you want to hit, check out nuget package PeanutButter.SimpleHttpServer -- check out the tests here for usage. Happy hacking (:

[rgomez90]

@PromoFaux , @cindra10 AFAIK unit tests SHOULD be self-contained. You should not hit any real endpoint in unit tests, that's the case for integration tests. I never tested http methods, but I heard about mocking HttpMessageHandler.

[PromoFaux]

Very agree with that. I'm a terrible dev insofar as I never learned to write testable code! All a bit "new fangled" for my experience ;) this project feels like a good fit to start learning, however :)

[cindra10]

Hi everyone,
I would like to give this a shot.
Would it be ok to provide a webhook URL from the app.config since the webhook endpoint should be kept secret?
Are there any specific cases you would like to be covered?

[PromoFaux]

Feel free to give it a shot! I think I could probably stand to learn a thing or two myself.

RE: Webhook URL. That raises an interesting point. In order to test this library, are we going to need an available endpoint for it to ping? I would have thought the tests would need to be self-contained, and not rely on a (potentially unavailable) external source.

Then again, I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to tests so... 🤷‍♂️

[cindra10]

Tests should be mocked but I've never done any HTTP related testing and this was the first idea I've had. I could do some research on this topic later today.

[PromoFaux]

Just going to drop this here to remember to read it later:

https://github.com/WireMock-Net/WireMock.Net

[rgomez90]

After reading a while, a possible solution would be to mock (using Moq) HttpMessageHandler to return a OK response that contains the json we sent. This way we could test if the json looks like it should.

Here the article

[cindra10]

@rgomez90 You are correct, I was too tired when I initialy responded to this so we can kind of ignore previous replies 😄. I've taken a look at both proposed packages (by @PromoFaux and @fluffynuts), both are relatively easy to setup . Other than that I didn't have much time to investigate, I will take a look at the article you linked ASAP.

[rgomez90]

hey @cindra10 😄 are you working / gonna work on it at the end?

[cindra10]

Hi @rgomez90 sorry but I simply can't find time to work on anything currently, college and work are just taking too much effort 😞. Since I'd still like to learn a few things about testing HTTP related projects, could you please let me know when these are implemented so I can take a look? :)

[rgomez90]

First goes first @cindra10!! Thanks for the quick response! 😄 Sure! We'll let you know once implemented!