How to capture and return value?

[bulldetektor]

I'm trying to do both a capture and return on the same mock, but I can't figure out how to set it up. This is my attempt so far:

const mockedDS = mock(MyDataService);
const whenCall = when(mockedDS.update(anything(), anything());
whenCall.thenReturn("OK");
const firstCaptor = new Captor<Array<Employee>>();
const secondCaptor = new Captor<TimePeriod>();
whenCall.thenCapture(firstCaptor, secondCaptor);

It seems that I can only do one or the other? Depending on whether I call thenCapture before thenReturn or vice versa it will only capture OR return the value.

Btw. What I'd really like to write is this;

const mockedDS = mock(MyDataService);
const firstCaptor = new Captor<Array<Employee>>();
const secondCaptor = new Captor<TimePeriod>();
when(mockedDS.update(anything(), anything())
    .thenCapture(firstCaptor, secondCaptor);
    .thenReturn("OK");

...but both thenReturn and thenCapture returns void

[NagRock]

Thanks for reporting, I will add this functionality soon. Currently you can use thenCall to capture and return value as workaround.

[bulldetektor]

Yes, that's what I ended up doing. Works fine, just not as fluent as I'd wish it was. But apart from that; ts-mockito is just lovely to work with :)

[NagRock]

Thanks for appreciation. As I wrote earlier I will add functionality to capture and stub mock with API that you tried to use: when(mock.smthn(anything())) .thenCapture(firstCaptor); .thenReturn("something");

[NagRock]

Should be fixed in 2.0 version. Please reopen if something is still wrong.

[alexleen]

Should be fixed in 2.0 version. Please reopen if something is still wrong.

What was the end result? I'm using 2.6.1 and can't seem to find a way to do this. What I would like is something similar to your comment above: when(mock.smthn(anything())).thenCapture(firstCaptor).thenReturn(firstCaptor);
i.e. I'd like to return whatever was passed as the argument.

[matitalatina]

@alexleen I had your issue and I ended up using https://github.com/NagRock/ts-mockito/#custom-function
Just create a function that returns the first argument.