How can I use my localizations in a test?

[DavidThielen]

Hi all;
I want to get the text I have in the app's localization resource to compare with what is displayed on the page. I found this in the documentation - nothing written.
Important to this:

1. I need the rendered page to use the localized strings.
2. In my unit test, I need the localized strings.

In other words, mocking it won't answer my use case.
thanks - dave

[egil]

I think you need to run the tests using a specific culture, which is what things like string formatting etc. uses to convert types to text during rendering.

xUnit has a sample attribute you can add to your test project, which allows you to specify a culture per test: https://github.com/xunit/samples.xunit/blob/main/UseCulture/UseCultureAttribute.cs

And yes, we should probably add a page to our docs that shows how to do this. If you figure out a good way, feel free to contribute a page to our docs.

[DavidThielen]

Done - #1260