Friday, 3 May 2019

Django test client does not automatically serialize factories

Here's my code:

# models.py
class MyModel(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=10)
    ...

# views.py
def get_all_models(request):
    return JsonResponse({"models": list(MyModel.objects.all())})

# urls.py
path('/mypath', views.get_all_models, name='get_all_models'),

This code works just fine if I visit /mypath. However, when I run an automated test using Django's test client, I get this error:

*** TypeError: Object of type MyModel is not JSON serializable

this is my test: from django.test import TestCase, Client from blog.tests.factories.user import UserFactory from blog.tests.factories.post import PostFactory

class MyModelTest(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.user = UserFactory.create()
        self.post = MyModelFactory.create(user=self.user)
        self.client = Client()

    def test_get_all_models(self):
        response = self.client.get("/mypath")
        pass

I suspect it has something to do with my factories:

import factory
from .models import User, MyModel

class UserFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory):
    class Meta:
        model = User

    username = factory.Faker('word')
    email = factory.Faker('email')

class MyModelFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory):
    class Meta:
        model = MyModel

    user = factory.SubFactory(UserFactory)
    name = factory.Faker('name')

How can I make my factories serializable?

NOTE: This question is not a duplicate. The other questions linked have view handlers that return HttpResponse objects, instead of JsonResponse objects. This distinction is key to my problem, because the error I'm seeing is related to JSON serialization that is supposed to be addressed by the JsonResponse class.

Also, the other questions do not involve factories. Factories are another key component of what I'm trying to do, which is run integration tests against data generated by factories.



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