How to unit test methods inside django's class based views?

Question

I need to test the methods and helper function inside a django Class Based View.

Consider this Class Based View:

class MyClassBasedView(View):

    def d         


        

Answer 1

Update - available in Django 3.0

As stated in Sebastian's answer he got the code snippet from django-downloadview docs. In there they state:

This is an early implementation of https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20456

A few years later, this feature is now part of Django, as you can read in the docs, so you would just need to do:

from django.test import RequestFactory, TestCase
from .views import MyClassBasedView

class MyClassBasedViewTest(TestCase):
  def test_my_method(self):
    request = RequestFactory().get('/')
    view = MyClassBasedView()
    view.setup(request)

    view.my_method()

The view.setup() method is precisely what was suggested in the accepted answer, but I think it is better to use the one from Django :)