Can Autofixture create an anonymous type?

Question

Suppose I need a call in unit test to return an anonymous type that looks like this:

var anonymousType = { id = 45, Name="MyName", Description="Whatever" }

Can Autofixture generate anonymousType? If so, what is the syntax?

Answer 1

No, AutoFixture does not support anonymous types, as they are internal to the library that uses them.

Answer 2

As @MarkSeemann noted, AutoFixture does not support anonymous types.

Notes on Auto Sphere and Dynamic

, , , - - AutoFixture DynamicObject, , .

:

public class DynamicCustomization : ICustomization
{
    public void Customize(IFixture fixture)
    {
        fixture.Customizations.Insert(
            0,
            new FilteringSpecimenBuilder(
                new FixedBuilder(new AnythingObject()),
                new ExactTypeSpecification(typeof(object))));
    }

    private class AnythingObject : DynamicObject
    {
        public override bool TryGetMember(
            GetMemberBinder binder,
            out object result)
        {
            result = new AnythingObject();
            return true;
        }

        public override bool TryInvokeMember(
            InvokeMemberBinder binder,
            object[] args,
            out object result)
        {
            result = new AnythingObject();
            return true;
        }
    }
}

AnythingObject , . , :

var fixture = new Fixture();
fixture.Customize(new DynamicCustomization());

var foo = fixture.Create<dynamic>();

Assert.NotNull(foo.Bar);
Assert.NotNull(foo.Baz());

- - AutoFixture . Fixture AnythingObject, :

public class DynamicCustomization : ICustomization
{
    public void Customize(IFixture fixture)
    {
        fixture.Customizations.Insert(
            0,
            new FilteringSpecimenBuilder(
                new FixedBuilder(new AnythingObject(fixture)),
                new ExactTypeSpecification(typeof(object))));
    }

    private class AnythingObject : DynamicObject
    {
        private readonly SpecimenContext context;

        public AnythingObject(ISpecimenBuilder builder)
        {
            context = new SpecimenContext(builder);
        }

        public override bool TryGetMember(
            GetMemberBinder binder,
            out object result)
        {
            if (binder.Name == "Bar")
            {
                result = context.Resolve(typeof(string));
            }
            else
            {
                result = new AnythingObject(context.Builder);
            }

            return true;
        }

        public override bool TryInvokeMember(
            InvokeMemberBinder binder,
            object[] args,
            out object result)
        {
            result = new AnythingObject(context.Builder);
            return true;
        }
    }
}

"Bar" string , AnythingObject. :

var fixture = new Fixture();
fixture.Customize(new DynamicCustomization());

var foo = fixture.Create<dynamic>();

Assert.IsType<string>(foo.Bar);
Assert.NotNull(foo.Baz);