Question:
Pretend I have a function like…
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function Get-Something { return Get-DogShit } |
…in my Pester test script…
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$var = 1 Mock 'Get-Dogshit' { return $var } it 'should return true' { Get-Something | should $var } |
This doesn’t work, but you see what I’m trying to do here? I want to get the value from a local variable into a MOCK script block. I want to avoid hard coding the return value in the mock and the expected result in the it-block. Any ideas on how I can achieve this?
Answer:
Wasn’t sure if it would work as not messed with pester before but apparently it follows the same scope rules as standard PowerShell.
So $script:var = 1, and the brute-force $global:var = 1 if it doesn’t or if you need to call it from outside the script scope.