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

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


        

Answer 1

I did something like that :

from django.core.files.uploadedfile import SimpleUploadedFile
from django.test import TestCase
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.core.files import File
from django.utils.six import BytesIO

from .forms import UploadImageForm

from PIL import Image
from io import StringIO


def create_image(storage, filename, size=(100, 100), image_mode='RGB', image_format='PNG'):
   """
   Generate a test image, returning the filename that it was saved as.

   If ``storage`` is ``None``, the BytesIO containing the image data
   will be passed instead.
   """
   data = BytesIO()
   Image.new(image_mode, size).save(data, image_format)
   data.seek(0)
   if not storage:
       return data
   image_file = ContentFile(data.read())
   return storage.save(filename, image_file)


class UploadImageTests(TestCase):
   def setUp(self):
       super(UploadImageTests, self).setUp()


   def test_valid_form(self):
       '''
       valid post data should redirect
       The expected behavior is to show the image
       '''
       url = reverse('image')
       avatar = create_image(None, 'avatar.png')
       avatar_file = SimpleUploadedFile('front.png', avatar.getvalue())
       data = {'image': avatar_file}
       response = self.client.post(url, data, follow=True)
       image_src = response.context.get('image_src')

       self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 200)
       self.assertTrue(image_src)
       self.assertTemplateUsed('content_upload/result_image.html')

create_image function will create image so you don't need to give static path of image.

Note : You can update code as per you code. This code for Python 3.6.