Provide a way to override Django's settings when running tests
Project description
django-override-settings provides an easy way to override settings in Django tests.
The override_settings class can be used as either a class or method decorator or as a context manager to temporarily override the values of settings. After each test case has finished (when using it as a decorator) or after the context manager has exited, it resets the values in django.conf.settings to what they were before. This prevents side-effects from creeping in and lets each test case run in its own sandbox.
This package also provides two convenience functions (with_apps and without_apps) to modify just INSTALLED_APPS as well as a special object (SETTING_DELETED) to run tests without a given setting defined.
The functionality in this package will eventually be superseded when Django 1.4 is released as it will come with a built-in override_settings. But for those maintaining pre-1.4 codebases, hopefully this package comes in handy.
Installation
We’re on PyPI:
pip install django-override-settings
Usage
If you have a bunch of tests that require a given setting, you can decorate the class and each test case will use that value. For example:
from django.conf import settings from django.test import TestCase from override_settings import override_settings @override_settings(FOO="abc") class TestFoo(TestCase): def test_foo(self): self.assertEqual(settings.FOO, "abc")
Or you can decorate a single test case and have it only apply on that method:
@override_settings(BAR="123") class TestBar(TestCase): @override_settings(BAR="abc") def test_bar(self): self.assertEqual(settings.BAR, "abc") def test_bar_no_decoration(self): self.assertEqual(settings.BAR, "123")
You can also use it as a context manager:
class TestBar(TestCase): @override_settings(BAR="123") def test_bar(self): self.assertEqual(settings.BAR, "123") with override_settings(BAR="abc") self.assertEqual(settings.BAR, "abc") self.assertEqual(settings.BAR, "123")
To modify just INSTALLED_APPS, use with_apps or without_apps:
from override_settings import with_apps, without_apps class TestAppModifiers(TestCase): @with_apps('django.contrib.humanize') def test_humanize(self): # ... @without_apps('django.contrib.sites') def test_no_sites(self): # ...
To run tests without a setting, use SETTING_DELETED:
from override_settings import override_settings, SETTING_DELETED class TestMissingSetting(TestCase): @override_settings(CUSTOM_OPTION=SETTING_DELETED) def test_delete_custom_option(self): """ Useful to make sure a missing setting raises an Exception. """ self.assertRaises(AttributeError, getattr, settings, 'CUSTOM_OPTION')
Requirements
Django >= 1.2
Thanks
Jannis Leidel for both the original snippet and his work updating it to work when decorating TestCases as part of Django proper.
Joost Cassee for the idea of SETTING_DELETED as well as with_apps and without_apps as part of his django-analytical project.
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