[SOLVED] Pass arguments in django test

Pass arguments in django test

I am trying to pass both the user.id and sample.id to a function in the views.

Here is my urls.py (url only accepts sample.id )

path('<int:tag>', views.task, name='task'),

Here is my views.py (views.py is looking for user.id but cannot find it)

def task(request, tag):
    task_user = get_object_or_404(Team, id=tag)

    task_user.assigned_to = ProjectUser.objects.get(id=request.POST.get('user_id'))
    task_user.save()
return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('someOtherPage'))

Here is my html template

<form method='POST' action="{% url 'task' object.id %}">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <label for="select1"></label>
    <select name="user_id" class="mdb-select md-form" id="select1" onChange="form.submit();">
        {% for user in usernames %}
            <option value="{{ user.id }}"> {{ user }} </option>
        {% endfor %}
    </select>
</form>

Here is my tests.py

def someTest(self):

    self.client.login(username='jack', password='123')
    user1 = auth.get_user(self.client)
    assert user1.is_authenticated

    sample = Team.objects.create(sampleField='SampleName')

    request = self.client.post(reverse('analyst_view_app:task_analyst', kwargs={'tag': sample.id}))

The error message is:

SomeApp.SomeModel.ProjectUser.DoesNotExist: ProjectUser matching query does not exist.

How can I pass the user1.id from my test to the function task -> user_id ?

Solution

You're not passing any POST data in your test. You need to send a dictionary representing the data from the form, as the second argument to the client.post() call.

request = self.client.post(
    reverse('analyst_view_app:task_analyst', kwargs={'tag': sample.id}),
    {'user_id': user1.id}
)

(Note though, if your view is supposed to be always getting the logged-in user, there doesn't seem to be any point in the select box at all. If not, then you should change your test; perhaps you don't need to log in at all there?)