Sounds good. I will probably work with Twill.
Thanks!
On Dec 8, 10:34 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 20:16 -0800, Jason Sidabras wrote:
> > Sorry, I guess I missed that part.
>
> > In my template it checks if there is a user logged in or not. If there
> > is not a user, it defaults the hidden field to send_id=1 and has a
> > form to place an email address. If the user is logged in the template
> > uses the pk_id from the user (in the case of non-admin pk=2 and up)
> > and then places the username a hidden field also.
>
> > So when the send button is pushed it sends both the sender_id="2" (or
> > whichever user) and the username="test_userwith_pk2"
>
> > So when I am testing and I have an anonymous user a simple post will
> > work to test my views, but when the user is logged in data comes from
> > the template so just "post" won't do. I would need to simulate
> > clicking the submit button.
>
> > Twill seems to do this similar to Perl's mechanize module. I am
> > familiar with this 'find forum' submit type of coding but I was
> > wondering if django has a way to grab these hidden fields and place
> > them in the post data when i run a
>
> > c = Client()
> > c.post('/contact-us/', {'some': 'variables' [+ hidden variables from
> > template]})
>
> No, Django's test.client.Client is simulating only the HTTP side of
> things. It doesn't parse any HTML. Twill goes partway by parsing the
> HTML, but then if you have modifications made by other purposes (e.g.
> Javascript, it doesn't pick those up). Short of using a web browser (the
> Selenium approach), there isn't an ideal way here.
>
> Probably wouldn't be too hard to write a subclass that did twill-like
> parsing (even using Twill) if you were sufficiently motivated.
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
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