django-pigeon

Test utilities for Django projects

Installation

$ pip install django-pigeon

Usage

django-pigeon comes equipped with a RenderTestCase which provides an assortment of methods on top of Django's TestCase that assist with end-to-end testing of views in Django. Writing a test that verifies a view renders correctly is as simple as:

from pigeon.test import RenderTestCase


class FooTestCase(RenderTestCase):

    def testFooView(self):
        self.assertResponseRenders('/foo/')

You can also inspect the rendered response:

def testFooView(self):
    response = self.assertResponseRenders('/foo/')
    self.assertIn('FOO', response.content)

By default, assertResponseRenders verifies that the status code of the response is 200, but you can change this by specifying the status_code keyword argument:

def testBarView404(self):
    self.assertResponseRenders('/bar/', status_code=404)

You can also make POST and PUT requests using assertResponseRenders by providing the method and data keywords arguments:

def testCreateFooView(self):
    payload = {'text': 'Hello World!'}
    self.assertResponseRenders('/foo/create/', status_code=201, method='POST', data=payload)

If you are using HTML generated from Django forms, you can set has_form_error=True as a shortcut to check for errorlist in the resulting HTML:

def testCreateFooViewWithoutText(self):
    response = self.assertResponseRenders('/foo/create/', method='POST', has_form_error=True)
    self.assertIn('This field is required.', response.content)

Use assertAPIResponseRenders for JSON responses. json.loads is automatically called on the response, so the object returned is ready for inspection:

def testFooAPIView(self):
    payload = {'text': 'Hello!'}
    response = self.assertAPIResponseRenders('/foo/', method='POST', data=payload)
    self.assertEquals(response['text'], 'Hello!')

You can use assertResponseRedirects to test redirects:

def testFooRedirects(self):
    # /foo/ redirects to /bar/
    self.assertResponseRedirects('/foo/', '/bar/')

If you have a list of views that you want to verify are rendering as 200 without adding any special assertion logic, you can simply override the get200s and getAPI200s methods, which should return a list of URLs. django-pigeon will construct test methods that check that rendering all of these URLs results in a 200:

class FooTestCase(RenderTestCase):

    def get200s(self):
        return [
            '/foo/',
            '/bar/',
            '/foobar/',
        ]

    def getAPI200s(self):
        return [
            '/api/foo/',
        ]

Most of the features in RenderTestCase are actually implemented in the mixin class RenderTestCaseMixin. You can combine RenderTestCaseMixin with other TestCase classes to get additional functionality:

from django.test import TransactionTestCase
from pigeon.test import RenderTestCaseMixin


class FooTransactionTestCase(RenderTestCaseMixin, TransactionTestCase):

    def testFooView(self):
        ...

django-pigeon supports Python 3.5+ and Django 2.2+.