As the title says, I'm looking for direction on how to properly test a controller extension. The extension renders a partial view which in turn I'm using within a JSONResult:
public static string RenderPartialViewToString(this Controller controller, string viewName = null, object model = null)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))
{
viewName = controller.ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
}
controller.ViewData.Model = model;
using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
{
ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(controller.ControllerContext, viewName);
ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(controller.ControllerContext, viewResult.View, controller.ViewData, controller.TempData, sw);
viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);
return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
}
}
Example usage:
public JsonResult Foo()
{
var model = _repository.getSomeData();
return Json(new { html = this.RenderPartialViewToString("Index", model) }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
I'm using NUnit & the MvcContrib test helper, however when setting up a controller that makes use of this extension I'm running into a NRE. I'm assuming that the controller context is not setup correctly?
Ultimately the test is barfing on ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView
. Here is a portion of the failing test:
var routeData = new RouteData();
routeData.Values.Add("controller", "someName");
routeData.Values.Add("action", "someAction");
var builder = new TestControllerBuilder();
var controller = new ListingController(repository.Object);
builder.RouteData = routeData;
builder.InitializeController(controller);
var result = controller.Foo();