I don't think you need to create a custom TestRunner, I believe it would be enough to use setUp and tearDown to start and stop an external process, which in your case would be a celery worker
Would that work for you? On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 6:19 PM, sarvi <[email protected]> wrote: > anybody have any suggestions on how I can do this? > > > I essentially want a worker process to connect to the django test > database ? > > > On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:56:41 AM UTC-7, sarvi wrote: >> >> I do have and use eager = True for local developer testing, environment. >> And I have been able to write test cases and they work in eager mode, >> fine. >> >> >> However, I do have a CI test environment, where I would like to be able >> to run these same test suites with real asynchronous worker processes. >> To make sure there are no problems when running them in a real world >> distributed model a Implements well. >> >> So What I am trying to do is to create my own custom Django Test Runner >> that >> 1. Lets the regular django test runner create/setup the test database >> 2. Start the Celery worker and have it talk to the same test database. >> >> I am having a very tough time finding a way to do this. >> >> The closest answer I found was >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42058295/make-celery- >> use-djangos-test-database-without-task-always-eager >> >> But couldn't figure out how to implement/do the Advanced: Step 3 that is >> suggested there. >> >> >> >> On Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:44:23 AM UTC-7, Avraham Serour wrote: >>> >>> Any special reason you are not using eager=true for celery under test? >>> >>> On Jun 22, 2017 7:17 PM, "sarvi" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Can someone help me with how can I get my celery worker >>>> process(standalone app outside of djanog) to talk to a django test database >>>> ? >>>> >>>> I am trying to test a celery/django app. >>>> I plan on starting the celery worker process with a custom TestRunner. >>>> So that the worker process starts after the django test runner has >>>> created the test database. >>>> >>>> DATABASES = { >>>> >>>> 'default': { >>>> >>>> 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.oracle', >>>> >>>> .............. >>>> >>>> 'TEST': { >>>> >>>> 'USER': WIT_TEST_DB_USER, >>>> >>>> 'PASSWORD': WIT_TEST_DB_USER, >>>> >>>> } >>>> >>>> } >>>> >>>> } >>>> >>>> How can I setup the celery app environment so that when the tasks >>>> access the the app.models.X, they are talk to the "test" database. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Sarvi >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >>>> gid/django-users/e9ba0c8c-a4e3-4588-99ec-46be91c4ba1b%40goog >>>> legroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/e9ba0c8c-a4e3-4588-99ec-46be91c4ba1b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-users/2bc42c7b-b601-4683-9eb4-ede77208ec5d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/2bc42c7b-b601-4683-9eb4-ede77208ec5d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAFWa6tLzdFmG6RRO4P1%2BbE-g1Rem4f33Q2yn1RGY7p1nKsF-ig%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

