How can I unit test my ASP.NET MVC controller that uses FormsAuthentication?
I would start by writing an interface and a wrapper class that will encapsulate this logic and then use the interface in my controller:
public interface IAuth
{
void DoAuth(string userName, bool remember);
}
public class FormsAuthWrapper : IAuth
{
public void DoAuth(string userName, bool remember)
{
FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(userName, remember);
}
}
public class MyController : Controller
{
private readonly IAuth _auth;
public MyController(IAuth auth)
{
_auth = auth;
}
}
Now IAuth
could be easily mocked in a unit test and verify that the controller calls the expected methods on it. I would NOT unit test the FormsAuthWrapper
class because it just delegates the call to the FormsAuthentication
which does what it is supposed to do (Microsoft guarantee :-)).