django-testing

For some of my Django views I've created a decorator that performs Basic HTTP access authentication. However, while writing test cases in Django, it took me a while to work out how to authenticate to the view. Here's how I did it. I hope somebody finds this useful. Humphrey Here's how I did it: from django.test import Client import base64 auth_headers = { 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION': 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode('username:password'), } c = Client() response = c.get('/my-protected-url/', **auth_headers) Note: You will also need to create a user. In your Django TestCase you can update the client

When I try to test any app with command (I noticed it when I tried to deploy myproject using fabric, which uses this command): python manage.py test appname I get this error: Creating test database for alias 'default'... Got an error creating the test database: permission denied to create database Type 'yes' if you would like to try deleting the test database 'test_finance', or 'no' to cancel syncdb command seems to work. My database settings in settings.py: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle

I am trying to test my Django views. This view passes a QuerySet to the template: def merchant_home(request, slug): merchant = Merchant.objects.get(slug=slug) product_list = merchant.products.all() return render_to_response('merchant_home.html', {'merchant': merchant, 'product_list': product_list}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) and test: def test(self): "Merchant home view should send merchant and merchant products to the template" merchant = Merchant.objects.create(name='test merchant') product = Product.objects.create(name='test product', price=100.00) merchant.products.add

I'm specifying the databases using a python object: DATABASES = { 'default':{ 'ENGINE':'mysql', 'NAME':'testsqldb', 'USER':'<username>', 'PASSWORD':'<password>', }, 'dynamic_data':{ 'ENGINE': 'sqlite3', 'NAME':'', 'USER':'', 'PASSWORD':'' }, } How can I specify the name of my test database? I've been trying to use TEST_NAME = 'auto_tests' in the settings.py file. However, when I run python manage.py tests <app_name> I get the following message: Creating test database 'default'... Got an error creating the test database: (1007, "Can't create database 'test_testsqldb'; database exists") Type

I'm writing a reusable django app and I need to ensure that its models are only sync'ed when the app is in test mode. I've tried to use a custom DjangoTestRunner, but I found no examples of how to do that (the documentation only shows how to define a custom test runner). So, does anybody have an idea of how to do it? EDIT Here's how I'm doing it: #in settings.py import sys TEST = 'test' in sys.argv Hope it helps. jjmaestro I think the answer provided here https://stackoverflow.com/a/7651002/465673 is a much cleaner way of doing it: Put this in your settings.py: import sys TESTING = sys.argv[1