Comments on: Law of Demeter is easy to spot when you need extra mocks

By: Crafting .NET » Auto-mocking hierarchies (a.k.a. recursive mocks) with Moq

Crafting .NET » Auto-mocking hierarchies (a.k.a. recursive mocks) with Moq — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:02:11 +0000

[...] have just read a good post by Richard Dingwall called Law of Demeter is easy to spot when you need extra mock. He shows how you can spot violations of the Law of Demeter when you have to create extra mocks in [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:20:28 +0000

Ben,

Shame on me for not knowing Moq could do that! Thanks for the tip!

By: Bengt Berge

Bengt Berge — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:05:09 +0000

Good points about the Law of demeter. However when using Moq you don’t need the extra mocks. Moq has a cool feature called recursive mocks. It looks something like this:

var foo = new Mock();
foo.Setup(f => f.Profile.GetStatus()).Returns(SOME_RETURN_VALUE);

I just wrote about this (as a comment to your post) on my blog.

By: Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #420

Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #420 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:31:09 +0000

[...] Law of Demeter is easy to spot when you need extra mocks – Richard Dingwall shows how friction setting up mocks is a sign of (and can be caused by) violations of the Law of Demeter [...]