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I have django code that interacts with request objects or user objects. For instance something like:
foo_model_instance = models.get_or_create_foo_from_user(request.user) If you were going to test with the django python shell or in a unittest, what would you pass in there? Here simply a User object will do, but the need for a mock request object also comes up frequently.
For the shell or for unittests:
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When mocking in a test, we are in a certain way making fun of our software or of the function we are testing, simulating the behaviour of a specific external functionality. In Python there is a package in the standard library that helps us apply mocks during our tests.
Quick overview. Django uses request and response objects to pass state through the system. When a page is requested, Django creates an HttpRequest object that contains metadata about the request.
TestCase. This test class creates a clean database before its tests are run, and runs every test function in its own transaction. The class also owns a test Client that you can use to simulate a user interacting with the code at the view level.
For request, I would use RequestFactory included with Django.
from django.test.client import RequestFactory rf = RequestFactory() get_request = rf.get('/hello/') post_request = rf.post('/submit/', {'foo': 'bar'}) for users, I would use django.contrib.auth.models.User as @ozan suggested and maybe with factory boy for speed (with factory boy you can choose to not to save to DB)
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