Can I attach an attribute to mocked properties?

[gsscoder]

Hi there,
thanks for sharing this great project! 👍

Given that example:

public interface IEmptyInterface { }
public interface IScalarString { 
  string StringValue { get; set; }
}

mock = new Mock<IEmptyInterface>();
intf = mock.As<IScalarString>();
intf.SetupAllProperties();
var o = mock.Object;

I lock to attach an attribute to mocked IScalarString::StringValue. Is this possible?

This will be very interesting also when mocking anonymous objects.

P.S.: I'm using Moq from NuGet, version 4.2.1507.0118.

[kzu]

That's a very interesting scenario and potential new feature. Unfortunately this isn't possible right now :(

[gsscoder]

@kzu, thank you for saying that!

Since I want to refactor a test project with non-programmatic fake, I'm writing a small helper class.
It's nothing exceptional, something I've done in 2-3 hours of work, but I hope it could inspire a Moq enhancement.
(For now it's designed to create mock of classes with property getters/setters and attach attributes to such properties).

For completeness, I want to refactor all this fake types: I'd like to be able to define types using a fluent dot-syntax.

[stakx]

I love reflection, metaprogramming, and runtime type generation stuff, so your proposition sounds interesting to me. That being said though, I am not sure Moq is quite the right place for this kind of functionality. After all, its main focus is on creating ad-hoc implementations of types having a specified behaviour. Adding or modifying custom attributes doesn't quite line up with that, IMHO.