Question

I want to create a simple Ninject provider that returns Moq’d instances instead of concrete types. So far I have this:

public class NinjectMockProvider<T> : IProvider
{
    public static Type Type { get { return typeof(T); } }

    public object Create(IContext context)
    {
        Mock<T> newMock = new Mock<T>();
        return newMock.Object;
    }
}

But this is all wrong I’m sure as I don’t know what I’m doing really. Any help and code samples would be great. I just want the ability to do:

kernel.Bind<ISomeInterface>().ToProvider<NinjectMoqProvider<ISomeInterface>>();

or something to that effect.

Update

I did figure out that I could accomplish what I want by using Ninject’s method binding:

kernel.Bind<ISomeInterface>().ToMethod(x => new Mock<ISomeInterface>().Object);

I still would like a more elegant way and I may have to check out Ninject.Moq as suggested by Ian, but if anyone has any real code examples that would be awesome.

Answer 1

Does the MockingKernel extension handle what you need? It has Moq, RhinoMocks, and NSubstitute flavors, and it is also available on NuGet.