Thank you very much! I'll try that! Best regards, Carsten
Am 11.11.20 um 02:28 schrieb David Nugent: > Make your own request. > > I don't see the need here but incase I'm missing something: request is just a > HTTPRequest > <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/request-response/#httprequest-objects> > instance. You can instantiate it like any other python class. The only > downside is that the request you manufacture won't have middleware applied or > in fact anything else that is populated and processed before it gets to your > handler (headers, method, parsed url parts, content and so on). > > This may not actually be an issue in test scenarios, depending on your need, > and in this case on the backing store > <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/contrib/messages/#storage-backends> > used by the messages framework. If it is set to session, then you'll need > to obtain a session from the client and stick it onto your request object if > you want that to persist through your subsequent test requests. > > HTH /d > >> On 10 Nov 2020, at 18:41, Carsten Fuchs <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Dear group, >> >> in my tests I would like to test the processing of messages in the view. >> >> For example: >> >> def test_is_message_properly_handled(self): >> # The problem: We have no `request` here! >> messages.info <http://messages.info>(request, 'Hello') >> response = self.client.get("/handling-messages-view/") >> # asserts … >> >> This is an artificial example and I'm aware that I could submit a POST >> request and then use `follow=True` so that eventually the messages are >> processed. But I would like to setup messages and their processing >> independently as shown above. >> The problem is that we don't have the `request` instance that is used by the >> test client. >> Is this possible? >> >> Best regards, >> Carsten >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1f9785eb-089f-491c-d9f5-2682f2e0a5ff%40cafu.de.
