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Making abstractions of .net classes to be able to unit test and constructor inject

Hi

To make it possible to unit test and to use constructor injection I often write wrappers for dotnet classes. Like the ones you find in the System.Web namespace, eg. HttpContextWrapper. I normally write: "public interface ISomeDotNetClass" and "public class SomeDotNetClassWrapper". Then I use the interface to inject with.

As I see it this is to use the Adapter pattern. Some code I have seen use the naming "Facade" for the same purpose. But as I see it, it is better to use "SomeDotNetClassWrapper" or "SomeDotNetClassAdapter". Using the naming "Facade" I think is more proper if you want to extract an interface for a whole subsystem.

What do you think is the best naming convention? "SomeDotNetClassWrapper", "SomeDotNetClassAdapter" or "SomeDotNetClassFacade".

If I want to wrap a static class or a class with static methods is it proper to use the same namingconvention? Lets say I want to make "System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager" abstract. Is the following ok, even if I dont send in an instance of any class in the wrapper instead call the static methods?
public interface IConfigurationManager
public class ConfigurationManagerWrapper

I hope you understand my thoughts. I would like some advise.

Regards Hans
Hans Kindberg, Nov 07, 2011
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