how to get request object in django unit testing?
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 ?
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)
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
Use RequestFactory
to create a dummy request.