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Fix potential NREs when using AssertionScope (#3178) - #3323
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Several assertion methods evaluated a member of a possibly-null subject as part of the argument to a chained ForCondition call. Outside of an AssertionScope, an earlier failure throws immediately so the chain never reaches this point. But inside an AssertionScope, execution continues, and the eager dereference throws a NullReferenceException instead of producing a proper assertion failure message. Fixed by using null-conditional comparisons (subject?.Member == expected) instead of eager dereferences, and by making a failure message in TypeAssertions.HaveProperty lazy so it isn't evaluated when the property doesn't exist. Affected members: - PropertyInfoAssertions: BeVirtual, NotBeVirtual, BeWritable (both overloads), NotBeWritable, BeReadable (both overloads), NotBeReadable, Return, NotReturn - TypeAssertions: HaveProperty, HaveIndexer Added regression tests wrapping the affected assertions in an AssertionScope, and a releases.md entry. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Fixes #3178
Problem
Several assertion methods followed this pattern:
C# evaluates method arguments before invoking the method, so
subject.Memberis evaluated even whensubjectisnulland the first condition already failed. Outside of anAssertionScope, the first failure throws immediately, so the chain never reaches the second line. Inside anAssertionScope, failures are only recorded (not thrown), so execution continues to the second.ForCondition(...), and evaluatingsubject.Memberthrows aNullReferenceExceptioninstead of producing a proper assertion failure message.Fix
Replaced the eager dereferences with null-conditional comparisons (e.g.
subject?.Member == true), following the pattern already used inTimeOnlyAssertions.cs. Also made a failure message inTypeAssertions.HavePropertylazy, since it referencedpropertyInfo.Nameeven whenpropertyInfocould benull.Affected members
PropertyInfoAssertions:BeVirtual,NotBeVirtual,BeWritable(both overloads),NotBeWritable,BeReadable(both overloads),NotBeReadable,Return,NotReturnTypeAssertions:HaveProperty,HaveIndexerTesting
AssertionScope, reproducing the exact scenario from the issue.FluentAssertions.Specssuite passes: 5963/5963 (net8.0).PropertyInfoAssertionSpecs/TypeAssertionSpecspass on net47, net6.0, and net8.0 (402/402 each).No public API changes, so no API-approval step is required.