Mocking WebResponse's from a WebRequest

Question

I have finally started messing around with creating some apps that work with RESTful web interfaces, however, I am concerned that I am hammering their servers every time I h

Answer 1

I found the following blog earlier which explains quite a nice approach using Microsoft Moles.

http://maraboustork.co.uk/index.php/2011/03/mocking-httpwebresponse-with-moles/

In short the solution suggests the following:

    [TestMethod]
    [HostType("Moles")]
    [Description("Tests that the default scraper returns the correct result")]
    public void Scrape_KnownUrl_ReturnsExpectedValue()
    {
        var mockedWebResponse = new MHttpWebResponse();

        MHttpWebRequest.AllInstances.GetResponse = (x) =>
        {
            return mockedWebResponse;
        };

        mockedWebResponse.StatusCodeGet = () => { return HttpStatusCode.OK; };
        mockedWebResponse.ResponseUriGet = () => { return new Uri("http://www.google.co.uk/someRedirect.aspx"); };
        mockedWebResponse.ContentTypeGet = () => { return "testHttpResponse"; }; 

        var mockedResponse = " \r\n" +
                             "   \r\n" +
                             "   \r\n" +
                             "     
Hello World
 \r\n" +
                             "   \r\n" +
                             "";

        var s = new MemoryStream();
        var sw = new StreamWriter(s);

            sw.Write(mockedResponse);
            sw.Flush();

            s.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

        mockedWebResponse.GetResponseStream = () => s;

        var scraper = new DefaultScraper();
        var retVal = scraper.Scrape("http://www.google.co.uk");

        Assert.AreEqual(mockedResponse, retVal.Content, "Should have returned the test html response");
        Assert.AreEqual("http://www.google.co.uk/someRedirect.aspx", retVal.FinalUrl, "The finalUrl does not correctly represent the redirection that took place.");
    }