Watson Jon

# re: Go ahead and repeat yourself

can the searchText variable be replaced with a random string generator? Or is the SearchResult constructor only called once?

# re: Go ahead and repeat yourself

The SearchResult ctor will only get called once then shallow copies of that object will be created. You'd have to devise another scheme to create copies of objects with random data each time.

# re: Go ahead and repeat yourself

Here's one way to do it, but not using the Enumerable.Repeat function. Create another method like this:

private static ISearchService CreateSearchServiceWithExpectedResults(StringGenerator stringGenerator,
int countOfResults)
{
var ints = new int[countOfResults];
var results = from i in ints
select new SearchResult
{
Id = stringGenerator.GenerateString(),
Description = stringGenerator.GenerateString(),
Title = stringGenerator.GenerateString(),
Project = stringGenerator.GenerateString()
};

return new MockSearchService(results.ToList());
}

Then create a StringGenerator class similar to this:

public class StringGenerator
{
public string Value
{
get { return GenerateString(); }
}

public string GenerateString()
{
return Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
}

public static implicit operator string(StringGenerator item)
{
return item.Value;
}
}

Now the SearchResult ctor will get called as many times as you ask and new, random string values will get created for each call to StringGenerator.GenerateString().

Hope this helps!