On 8/9/07, Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) initial_data has bitten me not realizing it was synced in > production each time. I think that initial_data should only get > inserted if you have an empty new database. Perhaps things synced > each time should be called "constant_data". The fixtures > documentation in testing does say it gets synched each time but also > says its purpose is to populate the initial empty new database.
There is an argument to be made that initial_data for a model should only be loaded once - when the model is added to the database. I can't say I've been bitten by this problem myself, but I'm happy to entertain discussion/patches that address the issue. > 2) Setting up users/groups/users manually in the runner gets blown > away by the TestCase architecture. Works as documented. However, I'm > not sure where I should put things that should happen post-each syncdb > for testing only. Should there be a testrunner function that gets > called post each sync or should I create a single TestCase derived > from django.test.TestCase that does the "pre-setup"? I'm not sure I follow. TestCase goes out of its way to avoid interfering with setUp/tearDown methods, and in a TestCase, there is a complete flush after each test, so any setup would need to be rerun on a per-test basis, not a per-sync basis. Can you provide an example of the problem? > 3) DateTime serialization won't work if the date is before 1901 - I > have a bug/real life data set where I get some bogus dates out of > another system. This is really a python problem. Again, if you can provide an example, it would help. However, if the problem is with Python itself, there's not a great deal we can do. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
