Testing Realm in PCL for Xamarin - xamarin

RealmConfiguration _configuration = new RealmConfiguration(Path.GetTempFileName());
var realm = Realm.GetInstance(_configuration);
Error:
System.TypeInitializationException : The type initializer for 'Realms.Realm' threw an exception.
----> System.DllNotFoundException : realm-wrappers
How do I initialize a realm test database for integration testing in PCL?

According to documentation, the PCL library only contains stubs - those methods are not supposed to ever be invoked. You should run your tests in an actual application. If using NUnit, you could make use of the NUnitLite runner to create a very simple console runner. Make sure to add references to Realm in the Console Application.

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How to bind service from Java library in Xamarin Android Project

I have service class implementation in Example.aar
public class DemoService : Service{}
I have created a Native binding library project.
When i tried to bind this service in Xamarin.Android project. bindService() is returning false.
var Result =context.getApplicationContext.bindService(new Intent(context,typeof(DemoService)), new ServiceConnection(),Bind.AutoCreate); //Result is false.
How to bind a service created in 3rd party library project in Xamarin Android project.??
You can refer to this article Binding a Java Library.
In the Microsoft doc, first you can get the class from the .aar file.
var ClassName = new Com.MyCompany.MyProject.MyclassName();
Then use the bindService or other methods to use the Class.
var Result =context.getApplicationContext.bindService(new Intent(context,typeof(ClassName)), new ServiceConnection(),Bind.AutoCreate);

Shiny + Prism + Platform Service Example

I am attempting to update a Prism 8.1 app to use Shiny v2.
In trying to turn one of my services into a Job I keep getting a container resolution error (using Unity). I am not sure what the pattern is for registering platform implementations of services. The Job has a service that is from my platform project but at the time the services.RegisterJob() is called I guess the platform initializer has not run.
Can someone post an example of how you are supposed to register platform implementations with Shiny?
Well, I'm not sure if this is the intended design but I solved the platform services this way.
I added a constructor parameter to my ShinyStartup like this:
public Startup(IPlatformInitializer platformInitializer) : base(PrismContainerExtension.Current)
{
_platformInitializer = platformInitializer;
}
and then in my AppDelegate I used this:
Shiny.ShinyHost.Init(new Shiny.ApplePlatform(), new Startup(new iOSInitializer()));
Where iOSInitializer is my Prism IPlatformInitializer.
Then in Startup I added:
protected override void RegisterServices(IContainerRegistry containerRegistry)
{
_platformInitializer.RegisterTypes(containerRegistry);
...
}
As far as the IJob not resolving dependencies when using RegisterJob, I moved job registration to App.OnStart using IJobManager.Register and it works. Also not sure if this is the intended design.
I did all my container wire up before calling RegisterJob and it still failed to resolve so there must be something under the covers that is happening in the Prism+Shiny world.

Error using Autofac with ASP.NET Web API RC and ASP.NET MVC3

I added ASP.NET Web API RC to my MVC3 project using NuGet:
Install-Package AspNetWebApi
Then I configured it. In Global.asax.cs:
// configure regular controllers
var configuration = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration;
var container = Bootstrapper.ConfigureContainer(configuration);
containterProvider = new ContainerProvider(container);
DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new AutofacDependencyResolver(container));
// Set the dependency resolver implementation for Web API.
var resolver = new AutofacWebApiDependencyResolver(container);
configuration.DependencyResolver = resolver;
And in Boostrapper.ConfigureContainer(...) I added:
// I register my types as InstancePerLifetimeScope()
// but I also tried .InstancePerHttpRequest().InstancePerApiRequest()
// to the same end
builder.RegisterType<SomeService>()
.AsImplementedInterfaces().InstancePerLifetimeScope();
// Register API controllers using assembly scanning.
builder.RegisterApiControllers(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
builder.RegisterWebApiFilterProvider(config);
This is described here and here.
I also updated Autofac, Autofac.Web, Autofac.Mvc3 packages using NuGet and installed Autofac.WebApi package.
With this configuration I tried running my ApiController and got the following error:
No scope with a Tag matching 'httpRequest' is visible from the scope in which the instance was requested. This generally indicates that a component registered as per-HTTP request is being reqested by a SingleInstance() component (or a similar scenario.) Under the web integration always request dependencies from the DependencyResolver.Current or ILifetimeScopeProvider.RequestLifetime, never from the container itself.
Then as I read this comment from Alex Meyer-Gleaves:
I suspect you are using the Web API package with MVC3 and this is causing the problem. In the MVC3 integration the tag for the InstancePerHttpRequest lifetime scope was "httpRequest". It was in the MVC4 Beta and Web API Beta packages that I changed both InstancePerHttpRequest and InstancePerApiRequest to use the common tag "AutofacWebRequest". You can grab the MVC4 integration package from NuGet using Autofac.Mvc4.
source article with comment
So following the advice from Alex I got the package Autofac.Mvc4 but it works only with Mvc4 and my project wouldn't build. I then grabbed the source code of Autofac to build Autofac.Mvc4 against Mvc3:
hg clone https://code.google.com/p/autofac/ --branch "MVC4 beta" C:\my\path
After using this assembly as my reference ApiController started working but regular Controllers worked ok only for a single controller action call. When the view called Html.RenderAction(...) and when I refresh or navigate to another controller action it crashes with this error:
No scope with a Tag matching 'AutofacWebRequest' is visible from the scope in which the instance was requested. This generally indicates that a component registered as per-HTTP request is being reqested by a SingleInstance() component (or a similar scenario.) Under the web integration always request dependencies from the DependencyResolver.Current or ILifetimeScopeProvider.RequestLifetime, never from the container itself.
I thought building from the newest source for Autofac.Mvc4 version 2.6.2.859 against Mvc3 could help but I can't find the source for that. Or maybe there's something else wrong in here?
I found the problem. I also used Autofac.Integration.Web to inject dependencies into custom Membership and Role providers. But in WebLiftime.cs there was this line:
public static readonly object Request = "httpRequest";
Once I changed it to:
public static readonly object Request = "AutofacWebRequest";
and used the built assembly everything works fine and I get no errors :)
I believe this constant value should the same as in all projects Autofac.Integration.Web, Autofac.Integration.Mvc and 'Autofac.Integration.WebApi for Mvc4 so this supposedly is a bug.

Unit Testing While Using Entity Framework

I have a web application that has been created using MVC 3 and Entity Framework. I would like to start using unit testing, but so far I have not been able to run any unit tests due to the way the system talks to the database.
I have a BaseController, which defines a DataContext as a variable:
public class BaseController : Controller
{
public Models.MyEntities DataContext = new Models.MyEntities();
Each controller then inherits the BaseController, thereby making the DataContext variable available to all controllers without redefining it:
public class ErrorController : BaseController
{
When I run a unit test, I receive an error about the object reference not being set to an instance of an object, each time referring to the line where I access DataContext.
Most references to unit testing say you should be abstracting your database layer, and using fake data for testing. This seems counter-intuitive to me, but that is a different discussion.
My question is - is it possible to use unit testing with the system configured the way it is? I am open to using any testing framework available, either MSTest, NUnit / XUnit etc.

How can I use BundleWiring to lookup Bundle/Class relationships (previously done via PackageAdmin)?

I'm in the process of upgrading my application the latest release of Eclipse Equinox 3.7 and associated libraries. I'm excited to have the generic support in OSGi 4.3 and digging the new Bundle.adapt() concepts. I've run into one stumbling block.
Previously, I've used PackageAdmin.getBundle(Class) to find out which bundle loaded which classes. I have to do this due to some RMI object serialization usage.
QUESTION: Is there an way to accomplish the same result, mapping Class to Bundle, using the new BundleWiring API?
I realize that PackageAdmin is probably not going away anytime soon, but I hate deprecation warnings.
Kinda embarrassed that I didn't find this the first time I looked through the document. Answering my own question for completeness.
From the core specification PDF ...
Section 3.9.9 - Finding an Object’s Bundle
There are scenarios where a bundle is required in code that has no access to a Bundle Context. For this
reason, the framework provides the following methods:
Framework Util – Through the FrameworkUtil class with the getBundle(Class) method. The
framework provides this method to allow code to find the bundle of an object without having the
permission to get the class loader. The method returns null when the class does not originate from
a bundle.
Class Loader – An OSGi framework must ensure that the class loader of a class that comes from a
bundle implements the BundleReference interface. This allows legacy code to find an object’s
bundle by getting its class loader and casting it to a BundleReference object, which provides
access to the Bundle. However, this requires the code to have the permission to access the class
loader. The following code fragment shows how to obtain a Bundle object from any object.
ClassLoader cl = target.getClassLoader();
if ( cl instanceof BundleReference ) {
BundleReference ref = (BundleReference) cl;
Bundle b = ref.getBundle();
...
}
In an OSGi system, not all objects belong to the framework. It is therefore possible to get hold of a
class loader that does not implement the BundleReference interface, for example the boot class path
loader.

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