Question

I have the following controller:

public sealed class SomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult PageNotFound()
    {
        Response.StatusCode = 404;

        return View("404");
    }
}

I have created an MSpec specification:

[Subject(typeof (SomeController))]
public class when_invalid_page_is_requested : SomeControllerSpec
{
    Because of = () => result = Controller.PageNotFound();

    It should_set_status_code_to_404 = 
        () => Controller.Response.StatusCode.ShouldEqual(404);
}

public abstract class SomeControllerSpec
{
    protected static HomeController Controller;

    Establish context = () => { Controller = new SomeController(); };
}

But because of how I instantiate the controller, HttpContext is null.
What would be the best way to test status code set by the PageNotFound action?

EDIT: Posted an answer below

Answer 1

Found a way to do it using Moq.

[Subject(typeof (SomeController))]
public class when_invalid_page_is_requested : SomeControllerSpec
{
    Because of = () => result = Controller.PageNotFound();

    It should_set_status_code_to_404 = 
        () => HttpResponse.VerifySet(hr => hr.StatusCode = 404);
}

public abstract class SomeControllerSpec
{
    protected static SomeController Controller;
    protected static Mock<ControllerContext> ControllerContext;
    protected static Mock<HttpResponseBase> HttpResponse;

    Establish context = () =>
    {
        ControllerContext = new Mock<ControllerContext>();
        HttpResponse = new Mock<HttpResponseBase>();
        ControllerContext.SetupGet(cc => cc.HttpContext.Response)
                         .Returns(HttpResponse.Object);

        Controller = new SomeController
                         {
                             ControllerContext = ControllerContext.Object
                         };
    };
}

Not very elegant. If you can think of a better way – let me know.