Popup messagebox in ViewModel

Very interesting topic, Jeremy’s IMessageBoxService idea is very easy to handle, unit-test. The pain is have to inject this IMessageBox to every class needed.

Glenn Block’s suggestion is using event handler, code can be a little bit cleanner. Test is a little bit harder.

[Test]
 public void should_validate_new_mail_role_and_raise_show_message_event()
 {
    var subscriber = MockRepository.GenerateMock<IEventSubscriber>();
     _emailRoleMaintViewModel.ShowMessageEvent
     += new System.EventHandler<EventArgs<string>>(subscriber.Handler);

     subscriber.Expect(x=>x.Handler( _emailRoleMaintViewModel, new EventArgs<string>("") ))
     .IgnoreArguments();

     _emailRoleMaintViewModel.AddEmailRole("");

     subscriber.VerifyAllExpectations();

 }

More difficult problem is to get the confirmation from view, Glenn’s solution is ‘to raise a separate event to indicate selection which the VM subscribes to‘. Too much overkill for a simple messagebox.

Dong Scott’ s post about CancellableCommand is another option, ViewModel only focus on success logic, but give options to view to ‘cancel’ the action. The comfirmation rending and analyzing code won’t be testable then, but who cares? It’s just a messagebox.

public class CancellableCommand : RelayCommand
{

   public void Execute(object parameter)
   {
   var eventHandler = Executing;
   CancelEventArgs cancelEventArgs = new CancelEventArgs(true);
   if (eventHandler != null)
   {
     eventHandler(parameter, cancelEventArgs);
   }

   if (cancelEventArgs.Cancel) return;

    _execute(parameter);
   }

    public event CancelEventHandler Executing;

}

[Test]
 public void should_stop_if_view_cancel()
 {
 var subscriber = MockRepository.GenerateMock<IEventSubscriber<CancelEventArgs>>();
 _emailRoleMaintViewModel.DeleteCommandObject.Executing +=
 new CancelEventHandler(subscriber.Handler);

 subscriber.Expect(x => x.Handler(_emailRoleMaintViewModel, new CancelEventArgs(true)))
 .IgnoreArguments();

 _emailRoleMaintViewModel.DeleteCommandObject.Execute("");

 subscriber.VerifyAllExpectations();
 _mockLookupProxy.AssertWasNotCalled(x => x.DeleteEmailRole(null), opt => opt.IgnoreArguments());

 }

 [Test]
 public void should_delete_if_view_did_not_cancel()
 {
 var subscriber = MockRepository.GenerateMock<IEventSubscriber<CancelEventArgs>>();
 _emailRoleMaintViewModel.DeleteCommandObject.Executing +=
 new CancelEventHandler(subscriber.Handler);

 subscriber.Expect(x => x.Handler(_emailRoleMaintViewModel, new CancelEventArgs(true)))
 .IgnoreArguments()
 .Do(new EventHandler<CancelEventArgs>(
 (o, e) => { e.Cancel = false; }
 ));

 _emailRoleMaintViewModel.DeleteCommandObject.Execute("");

 subscriber.VerifyAllExpectations();
 _mockLookupProxy.AssertWasCalled(x => x.DeleteEmailRole(null), opt => opt.IgnoreArguments());
 }

    public interface IEventSubscriber<TEventArgs> where TEventArgs : EventArgs
    {
        void Handler(object sender, TEventArgs e);
    }