Loading Fixtures Django

Question

I'm trying to load some fixtures within my Django tests, but they don't seem to load.

In my settings.py, I specify:

FIXTURE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'dhtmlScheduler\\fixtures\\'))

Now, within my test case:

def setUp(self):
    fixtures = ['users.json', 'employee.json']

I should also probably mention that I'm using the Nose test runner:

TEST_RUNNER = 'django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner'

and unittest:

class TestEmployee(unittest.TestCase):

I must be missing something obvious, can someone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

FIXTURE_DIRS is supposed to be a list or tuple, not a string. Remember that it's the comma that defines a tuple litteral, not the parens, IOW your settings should be

FIXTURE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'dhtmlScheduler\\fixtures\\'), 
    )

As a side note, hardcoding the path separator kind of defeats the whole point of using os.path.join(), so this should really be:

FIXTURE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'dhtmlScheduler', 'fixtures'), 
    )

Edit : and finally, you have to declare your TestCase fixtures at the class level, not in the setUp() method...

Answer 2

FIXTURE_DIRS = (os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'fixtures'),)

Or

from django.test import TestCase

class MyTestCase(TestCase):
     fixtures = [
        '/myapp/fixtures/users.json', 
        '/myapp/fixtures/employee.json'
     ]

Answer 3

In your test case file, Simply make reference to your predefined fixtures in this manner as shown below