Asserting that object is "empty"

[ITaluone]

Hi

I have a DTO with quite an amount of properties. If I want to test, if this object is empty (meaning all properties at default) I get a very long list of this lines of code

dto.FirstProperty.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();
dto.SecondProperty.Should().BeNull();
dto.ThirdProperty.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();
dto.FourthProperty.Should().BeNullOrEmpty();

This is quite annoying and repetitive.

If there was a solution like

dto.Should().BeEmpty();

// OR

dto.Should().HaveAllDefaults();

testing if every property has its default value, would be great.

[dennisdoomen]

No such methods exist, but why not do this:

dto.Should().BeEquivalentTo(new DTO());

[ITaluone]

Oh... 🙈

This solution is too easy.. I want a unnecessary complicated one.. 😂