#24721: Introduce something similar to mail.outbox for messages
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Reporter: mjtamlyn | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: contrib.messages | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by mjtamlyn):
A more explicit design possibility which doesn't require so much end user
code and provides a more explicit (and more optional) hook:
{{{
# settings.py
TEST_RUNNER = 'myproject.test_runner.TestRunner'
# test_runner.py
class TestRunner(DiscoverRunner):
test_extensions = [messages.test.MessagesExtension,
django_redis.test.TestExtension]
}}}
Each extension class would have hooks for test environment setup and
teardown, before/after each test case and individual test.
At the moment I find most third party apps are very bad at making it easy
to use them in a suitable manner for tests - I hope by introducing an
official API and making it easy for users they will consider more
providing utilities for testing.
I'd love to find an elegant way for these extensions to provide custom
assertion methods as well, for example {{{self.assertMessageSent('you
failed', level=messages.ERROR)}}}, but this would require something more
magical involving getattrs, deliberate monkeypatching on of methods or
something equally ugly.
At this point it does start looking a lot like stuff pytest has done
better. Personally I've not had the chance to use it a huge amount yet,
but it does look good. I think that pytest is now big enough and
established enough that we could consider adding a
{{{django.test.pytest}}} module with utilities along the lines of those in
{{{pytest-django}}}.
Mind you, if we are talking about magical code in test utilities, pytest
takes it to a whole new level ;)
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