How to build a new NUnit constraint

Question

I have an extension method that asserts a given value is one of the values in the list.

public static void IsEither<T>(this T value, params T[] allowedValues)
{
     EqualConstraint isInAllowed = null;

     foreach (var allowed in allowedValues)
         isInAllowed = isInAllowed == null ? 
                          Is.EqualTo(allowed) : isInAllowed.Or.EqualTo(allowed);

     Assert.That(value, isInAllowed);
}

I wonder is there any other better/elegant way of doing this, particularly using NUnit's ConstraintBuilder, ConstraintExpression, ConstraintOperator etc

Answer 1

There is a CollectionAssert in NUnit that should help. If you're asserting that a collection of items contains another item, you might try something like this:

public static void IsEither<T>(this T value, params T[] allowedValues)
{
    CollectionAssert.Contains(allowedValues, value);
}