Easily create mock request objects, for use in testing (original) (raw)

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simon

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August 12, 2008

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Django's testing framework assumes you will be running your tests against "live" views that have been plugged in to your site's URL configuration - but sometimes you might want to run a test against a view function without first wiring it in to the rest of the site. This class makes it easy to do that by providing a "factory" for creating mock request objects, re-using the existing test Client interface (and most of the code). Once you've created a request object in your test you can use it to call your view functions directly, then run assertions against the response object that gets returned.

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from django.test import Client from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIRequest class RequestFactory(Client): """ Class that lets you create mock Request objects for use in testing. Usage: rf = RequestFactory() get_request = rf.get('/hello/') post_request = rf.post('/submit/', {'foo': 'bar'}) This class re-uses the django.test.client.Client interface, docs here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/#the-test-client Once you have a request object you can pass it to any view function, just as if that view had been hooked up using a URLconf. """ def request(self, **request): """ Similar to parent class, but returns the request object as soon as it has created it. """ environ = { 'HTTP_COOKIE': self.cookies, 'PATH_INFO': '/', 'QUERY_STRING': '', 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET', 'SCRIPT_NAME': '', 'SERVER_NAME': 'testserver', 'SERVER_PORT': 80, 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', } environ.update(self.defaults) environ.update(request) return WSGIRequest(environ)

Easily create mock request objects, for use in testing (original) (raw)

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