Fixed #16087 -- Added ResolverMatch instance to test client response.

Thanks mrmachine for the suggestion.

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index 86f9a122c2..b4f385529d 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -214,8 +214,11 @@ Tests
 * The new :meth:`~django.test.SimpleTestCase.assertJSONNotEqual` assertion
   allows you to test that two JSON fragments are not equal.
 
-* Added the ability to preserve the test database by adding the :djadminopt:`--keepdb`
-  flag.
+* Added the ability to preserve the test database by adding the
+  :djadminopt:`--keepdb` flag.
+
+* Added the :attr:`~django.test.Response.resolver_match` attribute to test
+  client responses.
 
 Validators
 ^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt
index 1d55b2e3dc..e6433b5235 100644
--- a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt
@@ -432,6 +432,25 @@ Specifically, a ``Response`` object has the following attributes:
         loaded from a file. (The name is a string such as
         ``'admin/index.html'``.)
 
+    .. attribute:: resolver_match
+
+       .. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+        An instance of :class:`~django.core.urlresolvers.ResolverMatch` for the
+        response. You can use the
+        :attr:`~django.core.urlresolvers.ResolverMatch.func` attribute, for
+        example, to verify the view that served the response::
+
+            # my_view here is a function based view
+            self.assertEqual(response.resolver_match.func, my_view)
+
+            # class based views need to be compared by name, as the functions
+            # generated by as_view() won't be equal
+            self.assertEqual(response.resolver_match.func.__name__, MyView.as_view().__name__)
+
+        If the given URL is not found, accessing this attribute will raise a
+        :exc:`~django.core.urlresolvers.Resolver404` exception.
+
 You can also use dictionary syntax on the response object to query the value
 of any settings in the HTTP headers. For example, you could determine the
 content type of a response using ``response['Content-Type']``.