Session bullying in MVC 3

Question

I am trying to make fun of a controller session variable using Moq. What I keep working on is that the session is visible from the test, but zero inside the actual controller.

Test code:

[TestMethod]
public void SessionTest()
{
    var controller = new BaseController();
    var controllerContext = new Mock<ControllerContext>();
    controllerContext.Setup(cc => cc.HttpContext.Session["user"]).Returns(new User());
    controller.ControllerContext = controllerContext.Object;

    User currentUser = controller.CurrentUser; //fails (throws NullReferenceException)
    User currentUser = (User)controller.Session["test"]; //works
}

Controller Code:

public User CurrentUser
{
    get
    {
        return (User)Session["user"]; //HttpContext is null at this point
    }
}

The code above follows the most common pattern that I saw (several SO, MVC 2 messages in Example 7, etc.), but it still doesn't work. Inside the controller, ControllerContext is NULL, just like HttpContext. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

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