how to get request object in django unit testing?

Question

I have a function as

def getEvents(eid, request):
    ......

Now I want to write unit test for the above function separately (without calli

Answer 1

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