Using autofixture in my data integration tests to create proxies

Question

I\'m trying to write a suite of database integration tests for my domain which uses Entity Framework. I would prefer to autofixture objects in some scenarios. My ideal synt

Answer 1

Would something like this work?

var fixture = new Fixture();
fixture.Customize<MyEntity>(c => c
    .FromFactory<MyDbContext, MyEntity>(ctx => ctx.Set<MyEntity>.Create()));

using (var context = new MyDbContext())
{
    fixture.Inject(context);
    var item = fixture.CreateAnonymous<MyEntity>();
    context.Set<MyEntity>().Add(item);
    context.SaveChanges();
}

Disclaimer: I haven't tried to compile this...

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FWIW, if you were using xUnit.net with AutoFixture, you could reduce the test to something like:

[Theory, MyAutoData]
public void TheTest([Frozen]MyDbContext context, MyEntity item)
{
    context.Set<MyEntity>().Add(item);
    context.SaveChanges();
}