Automatic testing of ApiController

Question

I have an ApiController and would like to test it with unit tests including the routing.

An example:

[RoutePrefix(\"prefix\")]
public class          


        

Answer 1

I wrote a little helper class for in-memory integration testing that can be called as part of the test suit.

internal interface IHttpTestServer : IDisposable {
    HttpConfiguration Configuration { get; }
    HttpClient CreateClient();
}

internal class HttpTestServer : IHttpTestServer {
    HttpServer httpServer;

    public HttpTestServer(HttpConfiguration configuration = null) {
        httpServer = new HttpServer(configuration ?? new HttpConfiguration());
    }

    public HttpConfiguration Configuration {
        get { return httpServer.Configuration; }
    }

    public HttpClient CreateClient() {
        var client = new HttpClient(httpServer);
        return client;
    }

    public void Dispose() {
        if (httpServer != null) {
            httpServer.Dispose();
            httpServer = null;
        }
    }

    public static IHttpTestServer Create(HttpConfiguration configuration = null) {
        return new HttpTestServer(configuration);
    }
}

And would then use it like this

[TestMethod]
public async Task HttpClient_Should_Get_OKStatus_From_InMemory_Hosting() {

    using (var server = new HttpTestServer()) {

        MyWebAPiProjectNamespace.WebApiConfig.Configure(server.Configuration);

        var client = server.CreateClient();

        string url = "http://localhost/prefix/10?id2=5";
        var expected = 15;

        var request = new HttpRequestMessage {
            RequestUri = new Uri(url),
            Method = HttpMethod.Get
        };

        request.Headers.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

        using (var response = await client.SendAsync(request)) {
            Assert.AreEqual(HttpStatusCode.OK, response.StatusCode);
            var result = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync();
            Assert.AreEqual(expected, result);
        }
    }
}

This will configure an in-memory test server that the test can make calls to using its httpclient. It is in essence an end-to-end integration test.