Overriding settings
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For testing purposes it's often useful to change a setting temporarily and revert to the original value after running the testing code. The following code doubles as a context manager and decorator. It's used like this:
from django.test import TestCase
from whatever import override_settings
class LoginTestCase(TestCase):
@override_settings(LOGIN_URL='/other/login/')
def test_login(self):
response = self.client.get('/sekrit/')
self.assertRedirects(response, '/other/login/?next=/sekrit/')
The decorator can also be applied to test case classes:
from django.test import TestCase
from whatever import override_settings
class LoginTestCase(TestCase):
def test_login(self):
response = self.client.get('/sekrit/')
self.assertRedirects(response, '/other/login/?next=/sekrit/')
LoginTestCase = override_settings(LOGIN_URL='/other/login/')(LoginTestCase)
On Python 2.6 and higher you can also use the well known decorator syntax to
decorate the class:
from django.test import TestCase
from whatever import override_settings
@override_settings(LOGIN_URL='/other/login/')
class LoginTestCase(TestCase):
def test_login(self):
response = self.client.get('/sekrit/')
self.assertRedirects(response, '/other/login/?next=/sekrit/')
Alternatively it can be used as a context manager:
from django.test import TestCase
from whatever import override_settings
class LoginTestCase(TestCase):
def test_login(self):
with override_settings(LOGIN_URL='/other/login/'):
response = self.client.get('/sekrit/')
self.assertRedirects(response, '/other/login/?next=/sekrit/')
- settings
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