This might help maybe: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.allow_unsaved_instance_assignment
On Thursday, 16 July 2015 12:21:30 UTC+1, Roland Swingler wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've very recently come to to Django from a rails background, and > struggling to do unit testing of Django models without saving to the > database as I'm used to in Rails. Lets say you have 2 linked models, for > example User and UserProfileDetails, then in my tests I want to set up the > structure and not save any of it: > > user = User() > user.profile_details = UserProfileDetails() > ... > # stuff that tests non-persistence related functionality > > But I don't seem to be able to do this, because it will raise a > RelatedObjectDoesNotExist error, saying UserProfileDetails has no user. > Obviously I can get around this by saving the user first, but if I want to > not touch the database in tests is there any way I can achieve this? > > (also apologies if this has been asked before - I did a quick search of > the archives and couldn't find anything). > > Thanks in advance, > Roland > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/6fcb1249-6aab-4af6-b583-57ad18364419%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
