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| author | Juan Catalano <catalanojuan@gmail.com> | 2013-09-07 18:13:57 -0300 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2013-09-10 12:22:55 -0400 |
| commit | 4840fd9cbc3987781f7e6fab2520c9bd42aec057 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ef89ecdca596e7f4ec81768eac30973004417fe /docs | |
| parent | 79ccd1a101e6379c5a49da18fc006816e5ed127c (diff) | |
Fixed #20919 -- Extended assertRedirects to be able to avoid fetching redirect's response.
Thanks mjtamlyn for the suggestion.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.7.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/testing/overview.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt index 9f05055fd2..3e247fd211 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt @@ -293,6 +293,11 @@ Tests :attr:`~django.test.runner.DiscoverRunner.test_runner`, which facilitate overriding the way tests are collected and run. +* The ``fetch_redirect_response`` argument was added to + :meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects`. Since the test + client can't fetch externals URLs, this allows you to use ``assertRedirects`` + with redirects that aren't part of your Django app. + Backwards incompatible changes in 1.7 ===================================== diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt b/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt index 7c6f5caa47..420401cd4a 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing/overview.txt @@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ your test suite. You can use this as a context manager in the same way as :meth:`~SimpleTestCase.assertTemplateUsed`. -.. method:: SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects(response, expected_url, status_code=302, target_status_code=200, msg_prefix='') +.. method:: SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects(response, expected_url, status_code=302, target_status_code=200, msg_prefix='', fetch_redirect_response=True) Asserts that the response return a ``status_code`` redirect status, it redirected to ``expected_url`` (including any GET data), and the final @@ -1552,6 +1552,12 @@ your test suite. ``target_status_code`` will be the url and status code for the final point of the redirect chain. + .. versionadded:: 1.7 + + If ``fetch_redirect_response`` is ``False``, the final page won't be + loaded. Since the test client can't fetch externals URLs, this is + particularly useful if ``expected_url`` isn't part of your Django app. + .. method:: SimpleTestCase.assertHTMLEqual(html1, html2, msg=None) Asserts that the strings ``html1`` and ``html2`` are equal. The comparison |