How do I use MOQ with Xamarin.Forms DependencyService

Question

I am writing a Xamarin.Forms project which I am now trying to Unit Test currently I use the Xamarin.Forms DependencyService like so:

PCL Interface

public interface IGetDatabase
{
   string GetDataBase()
}

Device specific Implementation

[assembly: Dependency(typeof(MyProject.Droid.GetDatabaseImplementation))]
class GetDatabaseImplementation: IGetDatabase
{
   public string GetDatabase()
   {
       return "MyDatabasePath";
   }
}

And it is called in the PCL like so:

DependencyService.Get<IGetDatabase>().GetDatabase();

Now I would like to unit Test this using MOQ to Mock my interface implementation so that my implementations are generated at runtime. I don't want to write a mock class as my actual example is more complicated so means it wont work.

How would I go about doing this? Is my DepdencyService too tightly coupled to Xamarin?

Related: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1465896/126014 – Mark Seemann Sep 23 '15 at 19:55 — Mark Seemann, Sep 23 '15 at 19:55

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 24 '15 at 07:39

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Unfortunately you can only register a class that implements an interface in the current application. You need a dependency injection framework that allows you to register

a) an object instance or

b) a method that creates and returns a new mock

as the implementation for an interface.

There are many different dependency injection containers for C# available. I use Mvx which comes with MvvmCross. It allows you to register mocks created wit Moq.

Example

var myMoq = new Moq<IGetDatabase>();
Moq.Setup(x => x.GetDatabase()).Returns(() => "MyMockDatabasePath");
Mvx.RegisterSingleton<IGetDatabase>(() => myMoq.Object);

edited Sep 24 '15 at 07:39

JKennedy

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answered Sep 23 '15 at 19:16

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Thank you. This is what I thought I had to do, just wondered if there was a way to do it with `Xamarin.Forms DependencyService` but it looks like there isn't and I'm going to have to refactor. I'll update this answer with some example code – JKennedy Sep 24 '15 at 07:37

How do I use MOQ with Xamarin.Forms DependencyService

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