How do I Unit Test Actions without Mocking that use UpdateModel?

Question

I have been working my way through Scott Guthrie\'s excellent post on ASP.NET MVC Beta 1. In it he shows the improvements made to the UpdateModel method and how they improv

Answer 1

Or you can create form data proxy, like

public class CountryEdit {
  public String Name { get; set; }
  public String Iso3166 { get; set; }
}

• Plus. Easy create unit tests
• Plus. Define white list of fields update from post
• Plus. Easy setup validation rules, easy test it.
• Minus. You should move date from proxy to you model

So Controller.Action should look, like

public ActionResult Edit(Int32 id, CountryEdit input)
{
  var Country = input.ToDb();
  // Continue your code
}