On Jul 16, 11:11 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Joshua Russo<[email protected]> wrote: > > > I want to test my forms but I'm not sure the best way to go about it. > > It seems like it might be similar to views but I can't find much > > discussion of form testing in any of the discussions about unit > > testing. > > > Any suggestions are much appreciated. > > Well, a Form is just a class with a bunch of member functions - in > your views you instantiate instances of the form and give it data, > call is_valid() to validate and clean data. > > So a test is exactly that. Instantiate your form, give it some sample > data, and assert that the data has either thrown an error (i.e., that > is_valid() == False and form.errors is populated), or that > form.cleaned_data contains the right output. > > Keep in mind that you don't need to test the core behaviour - Django's > test suite will check that a simple integer field will reject > character input, etc. All you need to test is your own local > extensions, like clean_* methods. > > Yours > Russ Magee %-)
Thanks. I'm guess I need to take a closer look at the forms functionality. I don't think I'm using it properly. This is my first Django project and I guess I don't always know enough of what I'm asking about to ask a full question. Thanks for the input. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
