On 23 elo, 08:30, Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote: > This ... [1] > > from django.db import connection > connection._rollback() > > ... solved a problem for me in unit testing when I catch a deliberate > DatabaseError. > > Django 1.4 > Python 2.7 > PostgreSQL 9.1 > > My question: Is it safe enough to use a method with a leading underscore?
Generally no. In this specific case you might be safe. However, if you use _commit() in Django's standard TestCase you might make your testing DB dirty and some other test could break because of that. This kind of bug is horrible to debug. > Is there a better method? Use TransactionTestCase which is meant for this kind of testing. In TransactionTestCase you can safely use .commit() and .rollback(). The cost is slower test execution. See: [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/ dev/topics/testing/#django.test.TransactionTestCase]. - Anssi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
