I am adapting the unit tests from the official Django 1.5 tutorial. I am trying to test an empty context on a ListView. I get the following error:
AssertionError: Couldn't find 'No persons are available' in response.
And this is my ListView code:
class RsvpListView(generic.ListView):
template_name = 'rsvp_list.html'
context_object_name = 'rsvplist'
def get_queryset(self):
return Person.objects.all()
Here is my TestCase method:
def test_rvsp_list_view_with_no_persons(self):
response = self.client.get(reverse('myapp:rsvp_view'))
self.assertEqual(response.status_code,200)
self.assertContains(response,"No persons are available.")
self.assertQuerysetEqual(response.context['rsvplist'],[])
But in the official tutorial the Polls had the equivalent line (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial05/#testing-our-new-view):
self.assertContains(response,"No polls are available.")
I don't know where "No polls are available" is ever stored in the response from the views method that the tutorial provides but for some reason it passes - mine doesn't though.
What am I missing in my test method so it passes too?
The "No polls are available" message is from the template. From part 3 of the tutorial:
{% if latest_poll_list %}
<ul>
{% for poll in latest_poll_list %}
<li><a href="/polls/{{ poll.id }}/">{{ poll.question }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% else %}
<p>No polls are available.</p>
{% endif %}
You need to update your template rsvp_list.html to include "No persons are available." in a similar way.