Month: July 2017

Excluding certain properties when asserting objects with FluentAssertion

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It’s very common that we assert if two objects are equivalent in unit tests. Using FluentAssertion, this looks like the following actual.ShouldBeEquivalentTo(expected); However, there are times where you want to exclude certain properties when comparing objects. This might be because the value of the property cannot be predicted or you just don’t want to include … [Read more…]

Json.net serialisation issue when returning Entity Framework models in Web API

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It’s very typical for Entity Framework models to have circular references. For example: public class Author { public Author() { Articles = new Collection<Article>(); } public int Id { get; set; } public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } public virtual ICollection<Article> Articles { get; set; } } … [Read more…]