Hmm, you'r right, I think I'm getting confused and attributed the error to
something it isn't. Ive just ran the test after changing all the polls to
the future, and I still get the errors. The errors are as follows:
======================================================================
FAIL: test_index_view_with_a_future_poll (polls.tests.PollViewTests)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Alienware\Dropbox\coding
stuff\web\django\mysite\polls\tests.py", line 75, in
test_index_view_with_a_fu
ture_poll
self.assertContains(response, "No polls are available.",
status_code=200)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\test\testcases.py", line 351,
in assertContains
msg_prefix + "Couldn't find %s in response" % text_repr)
AssertionError: Couldn't find 'No polls are available.' in response
======================================================================
FAIL: test_index_view_with_no_polls (polls.tests.PollViewTests)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Alienware\Dropbox\coding
stuff\web\django\mysite\polls\tests.py", line 54, in
test_index_view_with_no_p
olls
self.assertContains(response, "No polls are available.")
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\test\testcases.py", line 351,
in assertContains
msg_prefix + "Couldn't find %s in response" % text_repr)
AssertionError: Couldn't find 'No polls are available.' in response
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 8 tests in 0.037s
FAILED (failures=2)
Destroying test database for alias 'default'...
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 5:29:50 PM UTC, jondbaker wrote:
>
> "setup_test_environment()<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/testing/advanced/#django.test.utils.setup_test_environment>
> installs
> a template renderer which will allow us to examine some additional
> attributes on responses such as response.context that otherwise wouldn’t
> be available. Note that this method *does not* setup a test database, so
> the following will be run against the existing database and the output may
> differ slightly depending on what polls you already created."
>
> That's from the section you linked to, and it clearly explains that a test
> database will not be created. Two sections below that is
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial05/#testing-our-new-viewwhich
> demonstrates how to create test cases that inherit from TestCase that
> can be found and executed by the Django test runner which will also handle
> creating the test database for you.
>
> JDB
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Paul Sermon
> <pauls...@googlemail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> yes I am running through the manage.py shell (although initially I did
>> not).
>>
>> I am doing the section:
>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial05/#the-django-test-client
>> On the response.content line, I get back a line listing the polls made
>> earlier.
>>
>> And I presume that is why the test from the next section fail, because
>> they are picking up the entries from the database, rather than the test
>> database.
>>
>> I am on windows 7, if that makes any difference.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:58:37 PM UTC, jondbaker wrote:
>>
>>> Are you running your tests on the command line using:
>>>
>>> $ python manage.py test polls
>>>
>>> ...or are you trying to run them from a Python shell? It'd be helpful if
>>> you could provide the internal link to the area of the page you linked to
>>> that you're experiencing the failure at, as well as the output of the error
>>> you're receiving and the command that causes it.
>>>
>>> JDB
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Paul Sermon <pauls...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is the tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/
>>>> intro/tutorial05/
>>>>
>>>> I've followed the tutorials pretty much to the letter since tutorial
>>>> one.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help!
>>>>
>>>> -Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 10:33:16 PM UTC, jondbaker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You're correct in thinking that tests use a test database that is
>>>>> independent of your formally defined project database. Without knowing
>>>>> exactly which Django tutorials you are referring to, I can only assume
>>>>> that
>>>>> perhaps you:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Have defined initial_data.json fixtures
>>>>> 2) Have defined other fixtures that your tests are referencing (likely
>>>>> in their setUp method)
>>>>>
>>>>> If none of the items above are correct, feel free to provide a link to
>>>>> the tutorial you're going through and I'll take a look.
>>>>>
>>>>> JDB
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Paul Sermon
>>>>> <pauls...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So I'm working my way through the Django tutorials, and have got as
>>>>>> far as the view tests. It seems that when running the test client,
>>>>>> rather
>>>>>> than returning data from an empty test database (is this what is meant
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> happen?) it is returning polls from the existing database, which has the
>>>>>> polls created in the previous tutorials. This means the tests that
>>>>>> expect
>>>>>> empty result sets fail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any idea why it would be doing this? Am I correct in thinking the
>>>>>> test should create it's own empty database to test this?
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