This is nothing new, just a cleaner way of doing it. I also have repositories where the repository itself is also an IQueryable, so I needed the same thing. I basically just put your code into an extension method like this at the root level of my test project, to make it available to all tests:
public static class MockExtensions
{
public static void SetupIQueryable<T>(this Mock<T> mock, IQueryable queryable)
where T: class, IQueryable
{
mock.Setup(r => r.GetEnumerator()).Returns(queryable.GetEnumerator());
mock.Setup(r => r.Provider).Returns(queryable.Provider);
mock.Setup(r => r.ElementType).Returns(queryable.ElementType);
mock.Setup(r => r.Expression).Returns(queryable.Expression);
}
}
This basically just offers reusability, since you’re likely to want to do this in several tests, and in each test it makes the intention clear and the mess minimal. 🙂