This post will cover two things: How to use an enum in ASP.NET Core routes with the string value of the enum rather than the integer value How to have the Swagger UI show a dropdown of the enum values rather than needing to type in the string value Thanks to Nick Heath and Thomas …
A regular annoyance when using Postman to call an API is that you’ll probably need an authorization token. While you probably expect this from an API, it can be annoying to have to first make a separate request to the API’s authorization endpoint, copy-paste the token into the header of your other request, and …
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All the things a modern IDE like Visual Studio can offer can be a little intimidating, and some people may not know about a lot of the functionality and think you need another IDE for some of these. I myself did not know about or use these shortcuts for many years. To that end, I …
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There is an NSubstitute counterpart to this post: How to easily match on object or list arguments with NSubstitute. Click there if you would like to see how to do this using NSubstitute. I recently had a use case where I wanted to use Moq’s It.Is to check if a model with certain properties was being …
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I recently had a use case where I had added custom properties to the LogContext with Serilog, and I wanted to be able to test if those properties were being added as expected. As it turns out, this is actually quite easy, thanks to a library called TestCorrelator by Mitch Bodmer over at https://github.com/MitchBodmer/serilog-sinks-testcorrelator (which …
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There is an NSubstitute counterpart to this post: How to mock HttpClient in C# using NSubstitute 3 ways. Click there if you would like to see how to do this using NSubstitute. Very often while unit testing, we need to mock our HTTP calls so that we don’t actually make HTTP calls out to an …