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Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 1110

How to read Web.Config file while Unit Test Case Debugging?

I am trying to fetch data(URL) from my configuration file

i.e : 

<AppSettings>
<add key="configurationUrl" value="http://xx.xx.xx.xx:XXXX/configuration service/configurations"/>

using the following code 

 reqClient.BaseAddress = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configurationUrl"].ToString();

Its all working good when I am trying to debug it, but the major problem comes when I debug a unit test case calling the same code above, instead of Showing "configurationUrl" in the AllKeys of APPSettings its showing "TestProjectRetargetTo35Allowed". I have also added the web.config file in the testcase project.

Any assistance will be appreciated Thank You.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11373

Answers (3)

Alex23
Alex23

Reputation: 441

An easy fix would be to simply copy the web.config over from the .web project and paste into your test project, renaming it to app.config in the test project.

This is very bad though as unit tests should not rely on external dependencies, but a fix none the less!

@Jon_Lindeheim has the cleanest method however by abstracting to interface so that you can stub the return value in your test!

Upvotes: 5

Lilshieste
Lilshieste

Reputation: 2754

The issue is that you haven't created an app.config file for your test project. You've created a web.config file, but that's getting completely ignored since the test project isn't a web project.

That being said, @Jon_Lindeheim is absolutely right about introducing an abstraction layer on top of the ConfigurationManager. (The ConfigurationManager is an external dependency, which means your unit test is testing more than just the SUT.)

Upvotes: 4

Jon Lindeheim
Jon Lindeheim

Reputation: 582

I suggest you create some abstraction layer to get rid of the dependency to ConfigurationManager. For example:

public interface IConfigurationReader
{
    string GetAppSetting(string key);    
}

public class ConfigurationReader : IConfigurationReader
{
    public string GetAppSetting(string key)
    {
        return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key].ToString();
    }
}

Then you could mock this interface in your unit test.

Upvotes: 13

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