How to unit test methods inside django's class based views?
To use class based views in your unittests try setup_view
from here.
def setup_view(view, request, *args, **kwargs):
"""
Mimic ``as_view()``, but returns view instance.
Use this function to get view instances on which you can run unit tests,
by testing specific methods.
"""
view.request = request
view.args = args
view.kwargs = kwargs
return view
You still need to feed it a request, you can do this with django.test.RequestFactory
:
factory = RequestFactory()
request = factory.get('/customer/details')
You can then unittest your methods:
v = setup_view(MyClassedBasedView(), request)
v.method_name()
I solved this issue by doing MyClassedBasedView.as_view()(request)
Update - available in Django 3.0
As stated in Sebastian's answer he got the code snippet from django-downloadview docs. In there they state:
This is an early implementation of https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20456
A few years later, this feature is now part of Django, as you can read in the docs, so you would just need to do:
from django.test import RequestFactory, TestCase
from .views import MyClassBasedView
class MyClassBasedViewTest(TestCase):
def test_my_method(self):
request = RequestFactory().get('/')
view = MyClassBasedView()
view.setup(request)
view.my_method()
The view.setup()
method is precisely what was suggested in the accepted answer, but I think it is better to use the one from Django :)