How to Mock Request object in unit testing asp.net mvc application

Question

I am working on an asp.net mvc 3.0 application. In unit testing one of the action method in my controller, I was getting an error.

How to mock: Request.Params["FieldName"]

I have included Moq framework, but was not sure how to pass value

Here is my code... Please suggest...

 var request = new Mock<System.Web.HttpRequestBase>();

 request
     .SetupGet(x => x.Headers)
     .Returns(
         new System.Net.WebHeaderCollection
         {
             {"X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest"}
         });

 var context = new Mock<System.Web.HttpContextBase>();

 context.SetupGet(x => x.Request).Returns(request.Object);

 ValidCodeController target = new ValidCodeController();

 target.ControllerContext =
     new ControllerContext(context.Object, new RouteData(), target);

Solution

Params is a NameValueCollection property that can be set-up in a similar way to Headers:

var requestParams = new NameValueCollection
{
    { "FieldName", "value"}
};

request.SetupGet(x => x.Params).Returns(requestParams);

Comments

[Sai Avinash]

@Chris..Perfect buddy..Thank you :) Can you Please help me in mocking session too.?

[Chris Mantle]

I might be able to help with that - what do you need to do?

[Sai Avinash]

@Chris..Thanks for response..I need to setup some session variables since the method that uses makes use of session variables which i should be mocking .. For eaxmple : Session["UserName"]="Avinash" some thing like that..