how to unit test file upload in django

Question

In my django app, I have a view which accomplishes file upload.The core snippet is like this

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if  (request.method == \'POST\'):
    if request.FILES.has_         


        

Answer 1

I do something like this for my own event related application but you should have more than enough code to get on with your own use case

import tempfile, csv, os

class UploadPaperTest(TestCase):

    def generate_file(self):
        try:
            myfile = open('test.csv', 'wb')
            wr = csv.writer(myfile)
            wr.writerow(('Paper ID','Paper Title', 'Authors'))
            wr.writerow(('1','Title1', 'Author1'))
            wr.writerow(('2','Title2', 'Author2'))
            wr.writerow(('3','Title3', 'Author3'))
        finally:
            myfile.close()

        return myfile

    def setUp(self):
        self.user = create_fuser()
        self.profile = ProfileFactory(user=self.user)
        self.event = EventFactory()
        self.client = Client()
        self.module = ModuleFactory()
        self.event_module = EventModule.objects.get_or_create(event=self.event,
                module=self.module)[0]
        add_to_admin(self.event, self.user)

    def test_paper_upload(self):
        response = self.client.login(username=self.user.email, password='foz')
        self.assertTrue(response)

        myfile = self.generate_file()
        file_path = myfile.name
        f = open(file_path, "r")

        url = reverse('registration_upload_papers', args=[self.event.slug])

        # post wrong data type
        post_data = {'uploaded_file': i}
        response = self.client.post(url, post_data)
        self.assertContains(response, 'File type is not supported.')

        post_data['uploaded_file'] = f
        response = self.client.post(url, post_data)

        import_file = SubmissionImportFile.objects.all()[0]
        self.assertEqual(SubmissionImportFile.objects.all().count(), 1)
        #self.assertEqual(import_file.uploaded_file.name, 'files/registration/{0}'.format(file_path))

        os.remove(myfile.name)
        file_path = import_file.uploaded_file.path
        os.remove(file_path)