NetArchTest ignores a nameof expression

[dbeylkhanov]

I faced with the strange behavior by NetArchTest when I worked with the nameof expression.

I have a simple an architecture test which is below:

public void DomainLayerDoesNotHaveDependencyOnInfrastructureLayer() {
	TestResult result = Types.InAssembly(typeof(Identity).Assembly)
		.That()
		.ResideInNamespace("StronglyTypedIdentity.Domain")
		.ShouldNot()
		.HaveDependencyOn("StronglyTypedIdentity.Infrastructure")
		.GetResult();

	Assert.That(result.IsSuccessful);
}

As you see, I want to avoid dependencies on the Infrastructure in the Domain layer (according to the Onion architecture it's wrong).

Now I'm going to apply this arch. test for my pet project .

To reproduce a strange behavior with nameof I deliberately decided to instantiate an object with CustomDbContext type(Infrastructure) in the CustomType (Domain). This means that I added a dependency on the Infrastructure layer in the Domain layer.
And now is an interesting moment, cuz, when I'm wrapping CustomDbContext into the nameof expr. (is evaluated at compile-time), then my arch test is successfully passing, but in fact, it should not. When I don't use nameof, the arch. test result is failed, and that is correct.

Watch my screencast here to realize an issue.
Also, visit my pet project to reproduce an issue

[NeVeSpl]

It is happening because nameof expression is replaced with an ordinal string literal during compilation. And NetArchTest is looking for dependencies in compiled code, not source code.

Example:
https://sharplab.io/#v2:CYLg1APgAgTAjAWAFBQMwAJboMLoN7LpGYZQAs6AsgBQCU6hxBSxr6AbgIYBO6AxugC86AHacAtgFMA9gDNqAZQAu3AJYiA5rQDcjIgF9k+oA===

[dbeylkhanov]

It is happening because nameof expression is replaced with an ordinal string literal during compilation.

yes, it's. But it's still incorrect I think, isn't it? So would be nice to fix it

[dbeylkhanov]

Let's imagine, that Domain and Infrastructure are separate assemblies. In this case, I deliberately should add a reference to Infrastructure assembly into the Domain assembly to use CustomDbContext in the CustomType. It means that NetArchTest will ignore also the reference(including dependency) on denied assembly.
I'm sure that should be fixed...