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I have a view that should be setting an initial value for a form field based on a GET value. I want to test this. I'm currently using Django's test client but I am open to looking at other tools.
Sorry, I did not mention that I am well aware of the assertContains method but I was hoping there was a better way other than searching the HTML for an input tag and the value attribute.
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Open /catalog/tests/test_models.py.TestCase , as shown: from django. test import TestCase # Create your tests here. Often you will add a test class for each model/view/form you want to test, with individual methods for testing specific functionality.
The preferred way to write tests in Django is using the unittest module built-in to the Python standard library. This is covered in detail in the Writing and running tests document. You can also use any other Python test framework; Django provides an API and tools for that kind of integration.
Order in which tests are executedAll TestCase subclasses are run first. Then, all other Django-based tests (test cases based on SimpleTestCase , including TransactionTestCase ) are run with no particular ordering guaranteed nor enforced among them. Then any other unittest.
self. client , is the built-in Django test client. This isn't a real browser, and doesn't even make real requests. It just constructs a Django HttpRequest object and passes it through the request/response process - middleware, URL resolver, view, template - and returns whatever Django produces.
Hate to answer my own question (like the 3rd time I've done it) but after mocking around with the test client, I've found a better way:
def test_creating_stop(self):
c = self.client
# Check that name is pre-filled
response = c.get('%s?name=abcd' % reverse('add_new_stop'))
self.assertEqual(response.context['form'].initial['name'], 'abcd')
Does anyone see anything wrong with this? I'll leave it up for a while see what people think.
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