creating a wcf client instance using unity

Question

So currently I'm creating a wcf client instance using the following code:

Service1Client client = (Service1Client)_container.Resolve<IService1>(new ParameterOverride("remoteAddress", url),
                    new ParameterOverride("endpointConfigurationName", "basicEndpoint"));

however this doesn't work when I'm creating unit tests as I'm casting the object as a Service1Client so my unit test bombs out as it cannot cast a Mock object:

 //Mock the WCF service
 var wcfMock = new Mock<IService1>();

 //register with container!
 var container = new UnityContainer();
 container.RegisterInstance(wcfMock.Object);

Any ideas on how best to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

You claim to be casting to Service1Client so you can access the methods Open(), Abort() and Close() of System.ServiceModel.ClientBase.

Those methods are defined in System.ServiceModel.ICommunicationObject, so let your interface IService1 inherit from that:

public interface IService1 : ICommunicationObject
{
}

Then you can omit the cast.