Suggestion: Default properties

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It would be nice to be able to specify default properties for a type. I
presume nbuilder currently sets property defaults based on the type of the
property.

Usually I want to create an object with all properties defaulted and one or
two properties set specifically. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by liam.mcl...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2009 at 12:37

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Hi Liam

Would you be able to give an example of the kind of thing you're after?

Currently NBuilder does give default values for all properties and you have the
ability to set any number of special values.

If you are creating a list of objects and you have a string property named 
'Title',
NBuilder will give the properties the values 'Title1', 'Title2', 'Title3' etc. 
Then
you can override this per property when you're building the objects, like this:

Builder<Product>.CreateListOfSize(10).WhereAll().Have(x => x.Description = "My
description").Build();

You can also set properties to random values and there is a contributed patch 
which
will be released very soon which will allow you to specify a delegate for naming
particular types.

Are you asking for something different to this? I'd be more than happy to add 
support
for something else if you need it.

Thanks

Gareth

Original comment by garethdo...@googlemail.com on 23 Sep 2009 at 11:00

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Thanks for your reply. In one of my projects I have a book builder. Every book 
gets
the following default properties:

new Book { AllowAnonymousReaders = true, NavigationMode = 
Book.NavigationMode.Automatic }

and then I can override properties for specific tests. The point is to have a 
way to
set application specific defaults for a type.

Original comment by liam.mcl...@gmail.com on 23 Sep 2009 at 8:14

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Hi Liam

I see what you're saying. I think I could add that in to the BuilderSetup class.

Currently you could do this by creating a custom property namer. I will see if 
I can
come up with a better way of doing this though, so that you can simply set 
defaults
without having to inherit from a class.

I'll reply to this when I have something ready.

Gareth

Original comment by garethdo...@googlemail.com on 29 Sep 2009 at 2:00

• Changed state: Accepted

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I talked to some other people who are using nbuilder, and they have achieved the
functionality I want by wrapping nbuilder and specifying per-type defaults in 
their
wrapper. Works but it would be neater to have per-type defaults in the tool. 
Love
your work.

Original comment by liam.mcl...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2009 at 5:32

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Original comment by joshuajr...@gmail.com on 8 Sep 2010 at 1:47

• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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moved to github

Original comment by garethdo...@googlemail.com on 1 Feb 2013 at 4:41

• Changed state: Done

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Found this via google search.  What is the update on how to do this?  I didn't 
see it in the docs.

Original comment by andrew.v...@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2015 at 9:42