Some Creativity

There appears to be inadequate documentation on setting up expectations in NMock for methods that accept arguments by reference using “out” and “ref” keywords. Here is a quick note to give an example demonstrating how it can be done.

Consider the following interface:

	public interface IFoo
	{
		void Bar(out int a, ref int b);
	}

“Bar” method takes one “out” parameter and another “ref” parameter.

To start mocking “IFoo” you would obviously first create a new mock object implementing interface “IFoo”.

	IFoo aFoo = mocks.NewMock< IFoo >();

We store it in a variable named “aFoo”.

Here’s how you would set up an expectation to ask NMock to expect a call to method “Bar” on “aFoo” object with an “out” parameter and a “ref” parameter with 2 as its value.

	Expect.Once.On(aFoo)
		.Method("Bar").With(Is.Out, 2)
		.Will(new SetNamedParameterAction("a", 10),
			new SetNamedParameterAction("b", 20));

The actions specified in the “Will” part cause the “out” and “ref” parameters to be set to values 10 and 20 respectively after “Bar” is called on “aFoo”.

	int a, b = 2;
	aFoo.Bar(out a, ref b);

	// At this point "a" will be set to 10 and "b" will be set to 20 because
	// of the expectation specified above.

Hope this helps.