unittest mock: provide way to refer to method calls in a rename friendly manner

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Issue by Andersmholmgren Originally opened as dart-lang/sdk#15793

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The unittest mock library uses strings to represent method calls. e.g.

foo.when(callsTo('fum')).thenReturn(...);

problem is when I want to rename fum then the IDE won't pick up my mocked method calls so I'll have to manually change them.

Issue dart-lang/sdk#13056 would provide a solution. Another option is a mockito style approach which I would imagine could be implemented today using noSuchMethod. e.g.

when(foo.fum()).thenReturn(...);

or

foo.when((f) => foo.fum()).thenReturn(...); // i.e. when calls the function with a second impl of Foo that captures the behaviour. Assuming you can dynamically implement an interface

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20768280/refactor-friendly-mocking-in-dart

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Comment by anders-sandholm

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Added Area-UnitTest, Triaged labels.

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Comment by Andersmholmgren

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Added support for symbol literals for methods in https://github.com/dart-lang/bleeding_edge/pull/8

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Comment by kevmoo

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Removed Area-UnitTest label. Added Area-Pkg, Pkg-Unittest labels.

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Comment by kevmoo

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Removed Pkg-Unittest label. Added Pkg-mock label.