如何使用request.post执行django测试？

Question

ive got a view method i would love to test. i am supplying the self.client.get method with the data but it fails to validate the form. what am i doing wrong?

using django 1.8
python 3.5

this is the view method

def saveNewDriverInfo(request):
    if  request.user.is_authenticated():
        form = DriverForm(request.POST)  
        if  form.is_valid():
            new_Driver = form.save()
            carid = form.cleaned_data['carID']
            Car = get_object_or_404(Car, pk=carid)
            return redirect('carmanager:carDetails', carID=carid
        else:
            return HttpResponse("something went wong some where! yes i said wong!")

this is the test method

 def test_saveNewDriverInfo(self):
            self.client.login(username="testuser",password="testuser321")
response= self.client.get(reverse('carmanager:saveNewDriverInfo'),data={'form':{'carID':'1034567','Driver_Last_Name':'daddy','Driver_First_Name':'daddy','Driver_Middle_Initial':'K','entered_by':'king'}})
            #self.assertRedirects(response, expected_url, status_code, target_status_code, host, msg_prefix, fetch_redirect_response)

            self.assertNotContains(response, 'something went wrong' ,200)

also note this test work cause it gets the response is what i got. but the line that is commented is what i want to use

But i cant seem to feed the information to the DriverForm. any help will be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

You should use self.client.post(url, data) in your test, since your view is looking for the POST data ( request.POST ) and not for request.GET .

I'd also suggest to refactor your view to match the template given here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/forms/#the-view

I am a little confused by the way your test passes data to self.client.get . Assuming your form has the fields carID , Driver_Last_Name , etc, the call to self.client.get should look like self.client.get(url, data={'carID': <id>, 'Driver_Last_Name': <driver_last_name>, ...}) . The 'form' key should not be needed. The same goes for self.client.post . See also here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/testing/tools/#django.test.Client.get