Fix mocking events with ref struct arguments

[thomhurst]

Description

Mocking an interface with ref struct event arguments previously generated invalid casts to and from object, so even creating the mock failed to compile. Event discovery now records stack-only parameters, and generated per-event interfaces route immediate raises directly to the implementation without boxing.

• Supports custom delegates, Span<T>/ReadOnlySpan<T>, and .NET 10 EventHandler<TEventArgs> with ref struct arguments.
• Preserves ref, in, and out modifiers and generic allows ref struct constraints, including event signatures read from referenced assemblies.
• Documents immediate raises, deferred-raise restrictions, and fresh arguments created in callbacks.
• Shares typed raise extensions across single-type, multi-type, partial, and wrap mocks.
• Omits deferred Raises<Event>(args) helpers for stack-only or by-reference arguments, which cannot be retained by a setup. Use Callback(() => mock.RaiseChanged(new Payload(...))) to create arguments when the call executes. Boxed dispatch reports a clear NotSupportedException for these events.

Related Issue

Fixes #6808

Type of Change

• Bug fix

Checklist

• Read the contributing guidelines and followed the project style.
• Added compilation and runtime regression tests; confirmed the new compilation regression fails against the original generator.
• Ran the affected generator snapshot suite, reviewed the new snapshot, and committed its .verified.txt file.

This change is confined to mock generation. Core test discovery modes and runtime public APIs are unchanged; the typed dispatch introduces no reflection.

Testing

Both complete suites pass across net8.0, net9.0, and net10.0:

• dotnet test --project tests/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator.Tests/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator.Tests.csproj --no-progress: 444 passed.
• dotnet test --project tests/TUnit.Mocks.Tests/TUnit.Mocks.Tests.csproj --no-progress: 3,890 passed.
• Roslyn 4.4, 4.7, and 4.14 mock generator variants all build successfully.
• Both updated C# documentation examples compile against the current local assemblies and generator with warnings treated as errors.

Regression coverage includes ref/in/out parameter forwarding, default out values without subscribers, anti-constrained generic arguments, strict/loose mocks, the reported nested type, generic and inherited events, inaccessible signatures, multiple mock compositions, subscriber order/removal, sender identity, stack-allocated spans, mutation visibility, exception propagation, and ordinary deferred event behavior alongside ref struct events.

Additional Notes

The generator test harness uses Roslyn that predates C# 14. Its compilation checks omit only the unchanged event-accessor and static-extension convenience files; all affected implementations, bridges, raise helpers, setup wrappers, and call sites are compiled and emitted without filtering errors. Runtime tests compile and execute the complete generated output with the selected SDK.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for immediately raising mock events with ref, in, out, and stack-only arguments.
  • Preserved parameter direction and values when events are raised.
  • Added typed raiser APIs for events that cannot safely use boxed arguments.

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected handling of generic parameters that allow ref structs and out event parameters.

• Documentation

  • Documented stack-only and by-reference event limitations and recommended usage patterns.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for ref-struct, by-reference, generic, inherited, and wrapped events.

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Walkthrough

The source generator now supports typed raising for events with ref-struct or by-reference parameters. It preserves ref, in, and out directions, rejects incompatible boxed dispatch, adds generic ref-struct constraint support, and documents the behavior.

Changes

Typed event raising

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Event contracts and parameter discovery src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Discovery/MemberDiscovery.cs, src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Models/*, src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Extensions/MethodSymbolExtensions.cs	Event models preserve parameter directions and detect ref-struct-capable generic parameters.
Typed raiser generation and dispatch src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/EventRaiserBuilder.cs, src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/MockImplBuilder.cs, src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/MockMembersBuilder.cs	Generated raiser interfaces and methods preserve typed arguments. Boxed dispatch throws for ref-struct and by-reference events.
Generator and runtime validation tests/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator.Tests/*, tests/TUnit.Mocks.Tests/RefStructEventTests.cs	Compilation, snapshot, and runtime tests cover event directions, generic constraints, mock forms, inheritance, accessibility, and subscriber behavior.
Event raising documentation docs/docs/writing-tests/mocking/advanced.md, docs/docs/writing-tests/mocking/setup.md	Documentation describes typed raises, deferred setup limits, and boxed-dispatch behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TestCode
  participant RaiseExtension
  participant GeneratedMock
  participant Subscribers
  TestCode->>RaiseExtension: Call RaiseEventName with typed arguments
  RaiseExtension->>GeneratedMock: Forward ref, in, out, or ref-struct values
  GeneratedMock->>Subscribers: Invoke event subscribers
  Subscribers-->>GeneratedMock: Update ref or out arguments
  GeneratedMock-->>TestCode: Return updated typed values

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Generic multi-type mocks using by-reference events may fail to compile, blocking a supported mocking workflow; this should be fixed before merge.

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Greptile Summary

The PR fixes generated mocks for events whose delegates contain stack-only or by-reference parameters.

• Records ref-like parameter types and preserves ref, in, and out modifiers through generated raisers and delegate invocation.
• Introduces typed per-event dispatch to avoid boxing stack-only arguments.
• Rejects boxed and deferred dispatch where arguments cannot safely be retained.
• Preserves generic allows ref struct constraints across supported Roslyn versions.
• Adds compilation, runtime, snapshot, and documentation coverage for the new event behavior.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the prior by-reference-modifier issue is resolved and no new actionable failures were identified.

Generated declarations, forwarding calls, and delegate invocations now consistently preserve ref, in, and out, while typed raiser interfaces avoid boxing ref-like values. The previous finding was manually resolved and the current implementation fully addresses it.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/EventRaiserBuilder.cs	Generates event-specific interfaces and implementations that forward stack-only and by-reference arguments without boxing.
src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/MockImplBuilder.cs	Preserves parameter modifiers during event invocation, initializes unsubscribed out parameters, and rejects unsupported boxed dispatch.
src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/MockMembersBuilder.cs	Emits typed immediate-raise extensions and omits unsafe deferred helpers.
src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Discovery/MemberDiscovery.cs	Records parameter direction and ref-like status during event discovery.
src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Extensions/MethodSymbolExtensions.cs	Detects and emits generic allows-ref-struct constraints while retaining compatibility with older Roslyn APIs.
tests/TUnit.Mocks.Tests/RefStructEventTests.cs	Exercises immediate typed dispatch, modifier semantics, generic events, compositions, and ordinary-event compatibility.

Flowchart

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flowchart LR
    A["mock.RaiseEvent(args)"] --> B{"Typed dispatch required?"}
    B -->|No| C["IRaisable.RaiseEvent"]
    C --> D["Boxed ordinary arguments"]
    B -->|Yes| E["Generated event-specific raiser interface"]
    E --> F["Raise_Event(ref/in/out args)"]
    F --> G["Invoke subscribed delegate without boxing"]
    C -->|Stack-only or by-reference event| H["NotSupportedException"]

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In `@src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Discovery/MemberDiscovery.cs`:
- Line 1059: Preserve event parameter direction through discovery and typed
raising: in src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Discovery/MemberDiscovery.cs:1059,
store p.GetParameterDirection() instead of forcing ParameterDirection.In; in
src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/RefStructEventBuilder.cs:37-41, include
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Review: PR #6814 — Ref-struct event support in TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator

Scope: Adds ref-struct event support to TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator — Builders/{MockImplBuilder,MockMembersBuilder,RefStructEventBuilder(new)}.cs, Models/MockEventModel.cs, Discovery/MemberDiscovery.cs, plus new tests (Issue6808Tests.cs, RefStructEventTests.cs) and a new verified snapshot.

Summary

I traced every consumer of the new RefStructEventBuilder.NeedsInterface / GetInterfaceName / GetBaseInterfaces predicate across all three impl-class variants (standard MockImpl, WrapMockImpl, BuildPartialMockImpl), the OwnerTypeIndex semantics for multi-type/secondary-surface mocks, the IsSignatureAccessibleFromAssembly/IsStaticAbstract gating, the boxed RaiseEvent(string, object?) dispatch fallback, and generic/constraint propagation. Everything is internally consistent, the {surface}_{event}_Raiser naming scheme can't collide across multi-type combinations, and the new tests (compile-check tests for inaccessible/static-abstract/generic/inherited/multi-type/partial/wrap-mock combinations, plus runtime RefStructEventTests) exercise essentially every branch worth being suspicious of.

No correctness bugs found. This is a static/logical review (git/dotnet execution against the PR checkout was blocked by sandbox constraints in this environment), not an executed one — worth a normal CI run to confirm, but nothing in the logic diverges from what the tests assert.

Minor nit (efficiency, non-blocking)

src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/RefStructEventBuilder.cs:34 — GetBaseInterfaces, EmitInterfaces, and EmitImplementations each independently re-run model.Events.Where(NeedsInterface), and GetBaseInterfaces itself is called from three separate sites in MockImplBuilder (impl, wrap-impl, partial-impl) for the same model. For a mocked type with many events, this re-runs the same filter+allocation up to 5x per generation pass. Harmless correctness-wise, but caching model.Events.Where(NeedsInterface).ToArray() once per Build() call and threading it through would remove the repeated enumeration — a small win in a source-generator hot path where allocations matter.

Overall: solid, well-tested change. Approving with the above as an optional follow-up.

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Review: PR #6814 — Ref-struct event support in TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator

Scope: Preserves ref/in/out argument directions and adds typed (non-boxing) dispatch for mock events with ref struct or by-reference parameters, across EventRaiserBuilder.cs, MockImplBuilder.cs, MockMembersBuilder.cs, MemberDiscovery.cs, MethodSymbolExtensions.cs, and the MockEventModel/MockParameterModel models, with generator snapshot tests, compile-time coverage (Issue6808Tests.cs), runtime behavior tests (RefStructEventTests.cs), and docs updates.

I reviewed the current state of the PR (verified against the pr-head checkout, not just the diff) — this looks like a well-scoped, well-tested fix for issue #6808. The overall design is sound:

• Typed per-event raiser interfaces avoid boxing ref-struct/by-ref arguments while the existing boxed RaiseEvent(string, object?) path is correctly rejected for these events instead of silently corrupting data.
• out parameters are pre-assigned (result = default!;) before the null-conditional delegate invoke, which is the correct pattern for out args behind ?.Invoke.
• Model equality/hashing (MockParameterModel/MockEventModel) already includes Direction/IsRefStruct, so Roslyn incremental-generator caching invalidates correctly when these change.
• The interface-naming convention for typed raisers mirrors the existing per-surface pattern already used for methods/properties, and is exercised by the multi-type test in Issue6808Tests.cs.

Finding (minor, non-blocking)

src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Extensions/MethodSymbolExtensions.cs:13-16 — the cached delegate for the Roslyn 4.12+ ITypeParameterSymbol.AllowsRefLikeType API has no exception handling around CreateDelegate:

private static readonly System.Func<ITypeParameterSymbol, bool>? AllowsRefLikeTypeGetter =
    (System.Func<ITypeParameterSymbol, bool>?)typeof(ITypeParameterSymbol)
        .GetProperty("AllowsRefLikeType")?.GetMethod?
        .CreateDelegate(typeof(System.Func<ITypeParameterSymbol, bool>));

The ?. guards against the property being absent on older Roslyn hosts, but if the property exists and CreateDelegate throws (e.g. a future/alternate Roslyn host where the getter's shape doesn't exactly match Func<ITypeParameterSymbol, bool>), the exception propagates out of this static field initializer. That fails the type initializer for MethodSymbolExtensions as a whole (TypeInitializationException), which is used for virtually all parameter/constraint emission — so a single unexpected Roslyn host would break mock generation for every mocked type in the project, not just the ref-struct-event feature this PR adds.

Suggest wrapping the delegate creation in a try/catch (or using as with a manual signature check) so a mismatched host degrades gracefully to AllowsRefStruct returning false, matching the existing "unsupported host" fallback behavior the ?. already tries to provide. Low risk in practice since the current Roslyn API shape is stable, but cheap to harden given the blast radius of a static-constructor failure here.

Not flagged as issues (checked, held up)

• The RequiresTypedRaise reordering in event dispatch generation (throwing before length-based branches, omitting break; after throw) is correct and matches the new snapshot.
• The broader IsUnconstrained/GetGenericConstraints change also affects non-event generic methods, but tracing through MockImplBuilder's dispatch-body generation shows generic methods already force the boxed object?[] path — interfaces with allows ref struct-constrained generic methods were already unmockable before this PR and remain so after (compile error moves from class-level to body-level), so this isn't a new regression from this diff.
• Other automated reviews on this PR (CodeRabbit, Greptile, a prior github-actions pass) found no correctness issues in the current implementation; Greptile confirms an earlier "dropped modifier" finding was already fixed in this branch.

Overall: solid, well-tested change — approving with the above as an optional follow-up.

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🟠 Major · Preserve type parameters in multi-type models. · src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/EventRaiserBuilder.cs:13-29

13-29: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve type parameters in multi-type models. Mock.Of<IFoo<T>, IBar<T>>() is a reachable call, but MockTypeDiscovery creates the multi-type model without TypeParameters. When an event requires typed raising, EventRaiserBuilder emits the event signature with T while GetTypeParameterList(model) emits no declaration for T. The generated raiser interface and implementation can therefore fail to compile. Populate the multi-type model with the constructed interfaces’ type parameters and constraints before generating typed raisers.

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In `@src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/EventRaiserBuilder.cs` around lines
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In `@src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Builders/EventRaiserBuilder.cs`:
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