Ah, that makes it alot clearer. I've had a go at it but I can't seem to get it to run my test.py file. Any reason why that might be?
Thanks for your help. On Apr 1, 6:17 pm, Prairie Dogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did this for the first time last night, although I definitely > don't > know how to write good tests, at least I wrote some tests. > > First thing you'll wanna check out if you haven't is: > > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/ > > But I assume you have, so I'll just get on to the fixtures. > > Probably the easiest way to create a fixture is to enter some data > into your site from the admin interface. Then go to your project > folder (the one with manage.py in it) and type something like: > > $>python manage.py dumpdata --indent=4 --format=json > > my_text_fixture.json > > Both the --indent and --format flags are optional, I think the output > is JSON by default. For more information on dumping data into a > fixture, check out: > > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django-admin/#dumpdata-app... > > Then, when you write your unit tests for your app in tests.py, you > simply load up that fixture at the beginning of each test case. The > docs say that the test database is flushed and restored for each > individual test case. Here's what one of my test cases looks like: > > class FormatTestCase(TestCase): > fixtures = ['book/test_data/book_test_data.json'] > > def setUp(self): > self.haiku = Submission.objects.get(title="A Peaceful Haiku") > > def testPermalink(self): > self.assertEquals(self.haiku.get_absolute_url(), "/submission/ > peaceful-haiku/") > > Hope that helps. Obviously, this only works for unit tests. I'm not > entirely sure how you load fixtures for doctests, maybe someone more > experienced would like to tackle that. > > On Apr 1, 12:31 pm, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am relatively new to Django, and I am having trouble getting my head > > around fixtures. > > The Django documentation just assumes that you should know what a > > test fixture is and how to write one. I understand that fixtures are > > just test data, but how is one written? > > > Any guidance/examples on this would be great. > > > Thanks, > > Tony --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
