how to get request object in django unit testing?

Question

I have a function as

def getEvents(eid, request):     ...... 

Now I want to write unit test for the above function separately (without calling the view). So how should I call the above in TestCase. Is it possible to create request ?

Answer 1

If you are using django test client (from django.test.client import Client) you can access request from response object like this:

from django.test.client import Client  client = Client() response = client.get(some_url) request = response.wsgi_request 

or if you are using django.TestCase(from django.test import TestCase, SimpleTestCase, TransactionTestCase) you can access client instance in any testcase just by typing self.client:

response = self.client.get(some_url) request = response.wsgi_request 

Answer 2

See this solution:

from django.utils import unittest from django.test.client import RequestFactory  class SimpleTest(unittest.TestCase):     def setUp(self):         # Every test needs access to the request factory.         self.factory = RequestFactory()      def test_details(self):         # Create an instance of a GET request.         request = self.factory.get('/customer/details')          # Test my_view() as if it were deployed at /customer/details         response = my_view(request)         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)