How to (should I) mock DocumentClient for DocumentDb unit testing?

Question

From the new CosmosDb emulator I got sort of a repository to perform basic documentdb operations, this repository gets injected to other classes. I wanted to unit test a basic query.

public class DocumentDBRepository<T> where T : class
{
 //Details ommited...

    public IQueryable<T> GetQueryable()
    {
        return _client.CreateDocumentQuery<T>(
            UriFactory.CreateDocumentCollectionUri(_databaseId, _collectionId),
            new FeedOptions { MaxItemCount = -1, EnableCrossPartitionQuery = true });
    }

    public async Task<IEnumerable<T>> ExecuteQueryAsync(IQueryable<T> query)
    {
        IDocumentQuery<T> documentQuery = query.AsDocumentQuery();
        List<T> results = new List<T>();
        while (documentQuery.HasMoreResults)
        {
            results.AddRange(await documentQuery.ExecuteNextAsync<T>());
        }

        return results;
    }


}

This repository needs a document client to work, which also gets injected on the constructor.

public DocumentDBRepository(string databaseId, IDocumentClient client)
{
    _client = client;
    _databaseId = databaseId;
    _collectionId = GetCollectionName();
}

My initial approach was to use the CosmosDb emulator, but that required the emulator to run which I don't like and makes the tests slower.

My second approach was to try and use a mock of the document client.

var data = new List<MyDocumentClass>
{
    new MyDocumentClass{ Description= "BBB" },
    new MyDocumentClass{ Description= "ZZZ" },

}
.AsQueryable()
.OrderBy(q => q.Description);
var client = new Mock<IDocumentClient>();
client.As<IDocumentClient>()
    .Setup(foo => foo.CreateDocumentQuery<MyDocumentClass>(It.IsAny<Uri>(), It.IsAny<FeedOptions>()))
    .Returns(data);

DocumentDBRepository<MyDocumentClass> repo= new DocumentDBRepository<MyDocumentClass>(cosmosDatabase, client.Object);

The code that uses this repository works like this:

var query = _documentsRepository.GetQueryable()
                .Where(d => d.Description = description)
                .OrderByDescending(d => d.description)
                .Take(100);
//Execute query async fails. 
var result = await _documentsRepository.ExecuteQueryAsync(query);

It fails because the repository tries to convert the IQueryable to a IDocumentQuery object, which is very specific to DocumentDb api (See method ExecuteQueryAsync above). Later on, it executes HasMoreResults method on it. So the problem is, even if I mock .asDocumentQuery() to return my object, I don't know how to provide a result for HasMoreResults and ExecuteNextAsync so that it makes sense for my unit tests.

My third option would be to straight mock my repository instead of the DocumentClient object. Would be, I think, simpler, but I wouldn't be testing much of the DocumentDb api.

Answer 1

The key to this is that the CreateDocumentQuery you are calling, though shown as returning IOrderedQueryable, the encapsulated result will also be derived from IDocumentQuery which is what would allow .AsDocumentQuery() to work.

Now normally you should not be mocking what you do not own. However in this case if you want to exercise ExecuteQueryAsync to completion you can create a fake abstraction that will allow the test to be exercised to completion.

The following Example shows how it can be done.

[TestClass]
public class DocumentDBRepositoryShould {
    /// <summary>
    /// Fake IOrderedQueryable IDocumentQuery for mocking purposes
    /// </summary>        
    public interface IFakeDocumentQuery<T> : IDocumentQuery<T>, IOrderedQueryable<T> {

    }

    [TestMethod]
    public async Task ExecuteQueryAsync() {
        //Arrange
        var description = "BBB";
        var expected = new List<MyDocumentClass> {
            new MyDocumentClass{ Description = description },
            new MyDocumentClass{ Description = "ZZZ" },
            new MyDocumentClass{ Description = "AAA" },
            new MyDocumentClass{ Description = "CCC" },

        };
        var response = new FeedResponse<MyDocumentClass>(expected);

        var mockDocumentQuery = new Mock<IFakeDocumentQuery<MyDocumentClass>>();
        mockDocumentQuery
            .SetupSequence(_ => _.HasMoreResults)
            .Returns(true)
            .Returns(false);

        mockDocumentQuery
            .Setup(_ => _.ExecuteNextAsync<MyDocumentClass>(It.IsAny<CancellationToken>()))
            .ReturnsAsync(response);

        var client = new Mock<IDocumentClient>();

        client
            .Setup(_ => _.CreateDocumentQuery<MyDocumentClass>(It.IsAny<Uri>(), It.IsAny<FeedOptions>()))
            .Returns(mockDocumentQuery.Object);

        var cosmosDatabase = string.Empty;

        var documentsRepository = new DocumentDBRepository<MyDocumentClass>(cosmosDatabase, client.Object);

        //Act
        var query = documentsRepository.GetQueryable(); //Simple query.

        var actual = await documentsRepository.ExecuteQueryAsync(query);

        //Assert
        actual.Should().BeEquivalentTo(expected);
    }
}