I am working on a legacy django project, in there somewhere there is a class defined as follows;
from django.http import HttpResponse class Response(HttpResponse): def __init__(self, template='', calling_context='' status=None): self.template = template self.calling_context = calling_context HttpResponse.__init__(self, get_template(template).render(calling_context), status)
and this class is used in views as follows
def some_view(request): #do some stuff return Response('some_template.html', RequestContext(request, {'some keys': 'some values'}))
this class was mainly created so that they could use it to perform assertions in the unit tests .i.e they are not using django.test.Client to test the views but rather they create a mock request and pass that to view as(calling the view as a callable) in the tests as follows
def test_for_some_view(self): mock_request = create_a_mock_request() #call the view, as a function response = some_view(mock_request) #returns an instance of the response class above self.assertEquals('some_template.html', response.template) self.assertEquals({}, response.context)
The problem is that half way through the test suite(quite a huge test suite), some tests begin blowing up when executing the
return Response('some_template.html', RequestContext(request, {'some keys': 'some values'}))
and the stack trace is
self.template = template AttributeError: can't set attribute
the full stack trace looks something like
====================================================================== ERROR: test_should_list_all_users_for_that_specific_sales_office ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/austiine/Projects/mped/console/metrics/tests/unit/views/sales_office_views_test.py", line 106, in test_should_list_all_users_for_that_specific_sales_office response = show(request, sales_office_id=sales_office.id) File "/Users/austiine/Projects/mped/console/metrics/views/sales_office_views.py", line 63, in show "sales_office_users": sales_office_users})) File "/Users/austiine/Projects/mped/console/metrics/utils/response.py", line 9, in __init__ self.template = template AttributeError: can't set attribute
the actual failing test is
def test_should_list_all_users_for_that_specific_sales_office(self): user_company = CompanyFactory.create() request = self.mock_request(user_company) #some other stuff #calling the view response = show(request, sales_office_id=sales_office.id) self.assertIn(user, response.calling_context["sales_office_users"]) self.assertNotIn(user2, response.calling_context["sales_office_users"])
code for the show view
def show(request, sales_office_id): user = request.user sales_office = [] sales_office_users = [] associated_market_names = [] try: sales_office = SalesOffice.objects.get(id=sales_office_id) sales_office_users = User.objects.filter(userprofile__sales_office=sales_office) associated_market_names = Market.objects.filter(id__in= (sales_office.associated_markets.all())).values_list("name", flat=True) if user.groups.all()[0].name == UserProfile.COMPANY_AO: associated_market_names = [market.name for market in sales_office.get_sales_office_user_specific_markets(user)] except: pass return Response("sales_office/show.html", RequestContext(request, {'keys': 'values'}))
How is it possible? The explanation you are getting this error is that you are naming the setter method mistakenly. You have named the setter method as set_x which is off base, this is the reason you are getting the Attribute Error.
Solution for AttributeError Errors and exceptions in Python can be handled using exception handling i.e. by using try and except in Python. Example: Consider the above class example, we want to do something else rather than printing the traceback Whenever an AttributeError is raised.
The @property Decorator In Python, property() is a built-in function that creates and returns a property object. The syntax of this function is: property(fget=None, fset=None, fdel=None, doc=None) where, fget is function to get value of the attribute. fset is function to set value of the attribute.
Python property() function returns the object of the property class and it is used to create property of a class. Parameters: fget() – used to get the value of attribute. fset() – used to set the value of attribute.
This answer doesn't address the specifics of this question, but explains the underlying issue. This specific exception "AttributeError: can't set attribute" is raised (see source) when the attribute you're attempting to change is actually a property that doesn't have a setter. If you have access to the library's code, adding a setter would solve the problem.
EDIT: updated source link to new location in the code.
Edit2:
Example of a setter:
class MAMLMetaLearner(nn.Module): def __init__( self, args, base_model, inner_debug=False, target_type='classification' ): super().__init__() self.args = args # args for experiment self.base_model = base_model assert base_model is args.model self.inner_debug = inner_debug self.target_type = target_type @property def lr_inner(self) -> float: return self.args.inner_lr @lr_inner.setter def lr_inner(self, new_val: float): self.args.inner_lr = new_val
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