Why don't my Django unittests know that MessageMiddleware is installed?

Question

I\'m working on a Django project and am writing unittests for it. However, in a test, when I try and log a user in, I get this error:

MessageFailure: You can         


        

Answer 1

Django 1.4 has a bug when you create the request with RequestFactory.

To resolve this issue, create your request with RequestFactory and do this:

from django.contrib.messages.storage.fallback import FallbackStorage
setattr(request, 'session', 'session')
messages = FallbackStorage(request)
setattr(request, '_messages', messages)

Works for me!