#11797: Test Client Response content form value parsing
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Reporter: Rupe | Owner: Rupe
Status: assigned | Milestone: 1.3
Component: Testing framework | Version: SVN
Resolution: | Keywords: test client
content form post get
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 1
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Changes (by kmike):
* cc: kmike (added)
Comment:
This is indeed an unnecessary duplication of work that have been done by
twill and [http://pythonpaste.org/webtest/ WebTest].
Twill can be integrated using [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-test-
utils django-test-utils], tddspry and django-sane-testing, webtest can be
integrated using [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-webtest/ django-
webtest].
With django-webtest you don't lose native django test client features like
.template, .context, assertTemplateUsed, assertFormError. And it is able
to do much more than just filling initial values for forms. So you can
just use django-webtest instead of native django test client for your apps
and get almost all django's test client benefits plus an easy and powerful
API.
On the other hand, django's test suite can certainly benefit from such
feature.
But bundling immature self-baked (maybe high-quality though)
implementation looks like NIH. I don't think that bundling mature
implementation make sense either. So I think the best way is to leave
things as-is. It is even documented that something like twill should be
used instead of native test client for integrational-style tests.
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