I am working on a legacy django project, in there somewhere there is a class defined as follows;
from django.http import HttpResponse class Response(HttpResponse): def __init__(self, template='', calling_context='' status=None): self.template = template self.calling_context = calling_context HttpResponse.__init__(self, get_template(template).render(calling_context), status)
and this class is used in views as follows
def some_view(request): #do some stuff return Response('some_template.html', RequestContext(request, {'some keys': 'some values'}))
this class was mainly created so that they could use it to perform assertions in the unit tests .i.e they are not using django.test.Client to test the views but rather they create a mock request and pass that to view as(calling the view as a callable) in the tests as follows
def test_for_some_view(self): mock_request = create_a_mock_request() #call the view, as a function response = some_view(mock_request) #returns an instance of the response class above self.assertEquals('some_template.html', response.template) self.assertEquals({}, response.context)
The problem is that half way through the test suite(quite a huge test suite), some tests begin blowing up when executing the
return Response('some_template.html', RequestContext(request, {'some keys': 'some values'}))
and the stack trace is
self.template = template AttributeError: can't set attribute
the full stack trace looks something like
====================================================================== ERROR: test_should_list_all_users_for_that_specific_sales_office ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/austiine/Projects/mped/console/metrics/tests/unit/views/sales_office_views_test.py", line 106, in test_should_list_all_users_for_that_specific_sales_office response = show(request, sales_office_id=sales_office.id) File "/Users/austiine/Projects/mped/console/metrics/views/sales_office_views.py", line 63, in show "sales_office_users": sales_office_users})) File "/Users/austiine/Projects/mped/console/metrics/utils/response.py", line 9, in __init__ self.template = template AttributeError: can't set attribute
the actual failing test is
def test_should_list_all_users_for_that_specific_sales_office(self): user_company = CompanyFactory.create() request = self.mock_request(user_company) #some other stuff #calling the view response = show(request, sales_office_id=sales_office.id) self.assertIn(user, response.calling_context["sales_office_users"]) self.assertNotIn(user2, response.calling_context["sales_office_users"])
code for the show view
def show(request, sales_office_id): user = request.user sales_office = [] sales_office_users = [] associated_market_names = [] try: sales_office = SalesOffice.objects.get(id=sales_office_id) sales_office_users = User.objects.filter(userprofile__sales_office=sales_office) associated_market_names = Market.objects.filter(id__in= (sales_office.associated_markets.all())).values_list("name", flat=True) if user.groups.all()[0].name == UserProfile.COMPANY_AO: associated_market_names = [market.name for market in sales_office.get_sales_office_user_specific_markets(user)] except: pass return Response("sales_office/show.html", RequestContext(request, {'keys': 'values'