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  emarthinsen

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  Unit Testing RedirectToAction where Controller and Action are specified

  Jan 15, 2008 07:38 AM|LINK

  Hello-

  I'm trying to test the following line of code:

  RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");

  I followed an example that talked about inheriting from your controller and overriding RedirectToAction so it would log the values it received rather than doing anything. Here's the code that was recommended:

  //using the Specific Subclass pattern
  private class TestContentController : ContentController
  {
  	public string RedirectToActionValues { get; set; }
  
  	protected override void  RedirectToAction(object values)
  	{
  		RedirectToActionValues = values.ToString();
  	}
  }

  The catch is that this only works for redirects to an action, not an action and a controller. For redirects to a controller, the "values" object is of type "RedirectDataWithController". For a simple redirect, I assume it's a simple string. I can't access RedirectDataWithController since it is sealed and internal. I ended up getting around that with code like this:

  //using the Specific Subclass pattern
  private class TestContentController : ContentController
  {
  	public string RedirectToActionValue { get; set; }
  	public string RedirectToControllerValue { get; set; }
  
  	protected override void  RedirectToAction(object values)
  	{
  		RedirectToActionValue = ReflectionHelper.InspectPropertyOfRedirectDataWithController(values, "Action");
  		RedirectToControllerValue = ReflectionHelper.InspectPropertyOfRedirectDataWithController(values, "Controller");
  	}
  }

  My ReflectionHelper looks like this (yes, it's messy):

  internal static class ReflectionHelper
  {
  	internal static string InspectPropertyOfRedirectDataWithController(object obj, string field)
  	{
  		Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(@"C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions\System.Web.Extensions.dll");
  
  		Type type = assembly.GetType("System.Web.Mvc.RedirectDataWithController");
  
  		PropertyInfo propertyInfo = type.GetProperty(field);
  
  		return propertyInfo.GetValue(obj, null).ToString();
  	}
  }

  This all feels like a big hack. Is there a better way to do this?

  Regards-
  Eric

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  ignatandrei

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  Re: Unit Testing RedirectToAction where Controller and Action are specified

  Nov 18, 2012 08:39 PM|LINK

  emarthinsen

  I followed an example that talked about inheriting from your controller and overriding RedirectToAction so it would log the values it received rather than doing anything

  Please see http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/aspnet-mvc-filters-and-statefulness.html

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  Re: Unit Testing RedirectToAction where Controller and Action are specified

  Nov 19, 2012 01:58 PM|LINK

  Andrei, Why are you replying to 4-5 year old thread?

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