#13851: Clarification of the 'Fixture loading' section of the unit test
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Reporter: igloo |
Owner: nobody
Status: new |
Milestone:
Component: Documentation |
Version: 1.2
Keywords: fixtures, testing framework, unit tests, initial_data |
Stage: Unreviewed
Has_patch: 0 |
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The documentation could do with elaborating on the loading of fixtures by
the testing framework.
Quoth the docs:
"Once you've created a fixture and placed it in a fixtures directory in
one of your INSTALLED_APPS, you can use it in your unit tests by
specifying a fixtures class attribute on your django.test.TestCase
subclass:"
[...]
{{{
class AnimalTestCase(TestCase):
fixtures = ['mammals.json', 'birds']
}}}
What that says to me is, I can put any old file in the 'fixtures'
directory and load it up in the test case by referring to it by filename,
eg., 'mammals.json' - however, with the default behaviour, this isn't the
case. The fixtures have to be in a file called 'initial_data'. I spent
about 10 minutes tearing my hair out over this one! I know it does
mention this in the box directly above the bit I've quoted, but is there
any chance we can make it a bit clearer?
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Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13851>
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