Thanks. Actually, that was the first thing I tried. I think I saw some other example online where someone had the path to the fixture in the code, so I just started trying anything. You're right about the documentation, though -- it is pretty clear about the location of the file. That just didn't work.
I did find this ticket: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/12682 So I added a --verbosity=2 switch, and saw it was trying to load initial_data.json. I changed my filename to that, and that works. I still don't know why it ignores articles-test.json, but at least I've got something working now. Thanks for your help. On Apr 15, 4:07 pm, Karen Tracey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm pretty new to Django, and I'm trying to create a few simple tests > > for my project. I've created a very basic fixture and I'm trying to > > just load it and see that the data is there. Nothing big. I've read > > the documentation here: > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/ > > but I must be missing something because I can't get it to work. This > > is how I have my app set up: > > articles/ > > models.py > > tests.py > > fixtures/ > > articles-test.json > > > tests.py looks like this: > > ... > > class ArticleTests(unittest.TestCase): > > fixtures = ['articles/fixtures/articles-test.json'] > > Remove the 'articles/fixtures/' part. Notice there are no paths in the the > example doc -- fixtures directories under each app listed in INSTALLED_APPS > are automatically searched for fixtures. > > > > > def test_article_exists(self): > > a = Article.objects.get(pk=1) > > self.assertEquals(headline='foo') > > > When I run manage.py test articles, it's finding my test and running, > > but it fails with > > ... > > DoesNotExist: Article matching query does not exist. > > > One thing that is confusing me is that although the debug messages say > > the test db tables are being created, etc, it says nothing about > > whether it's loading my fixture, or whether it's trying and failing. > > The documentation is unclear about exactly where the fixtures need to > > be located, so I've tried putting them in a lot different places, with > > no luck. I tried mangling the json file, so if it found it it should > > throw a parse error, and still there was no difference, so I think the > > problem must be that it's not loading the fixture, but I just can't > > figure out how to point it in the right directions. > > You are right, there is no diagnostic message issued when a fixture named in > fixtures isn't found. There may be a ticket open on that. As for where the > file needs to be...the test doc you point to does say "Once you've created a > fixture and placed it in a fixtures directory in one of your INSTALLED_APPS, > you can use it in your unit tests..." -- does that not make it clear where > the file needs to go? > > Karen -- 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.
