Add ability for tests to use mock models. about django-rest-framework

[markotibold]

Got this approach working on code for a work-project.

Just going to paste some stuff here as a remeninder.

use the following code when you don't want to do manage.py test appname:

from django.test.utils import setup_test_environment
setup_test_environment()

from django.db import connection
connection.creation.create_test_db()

and in the test:

class MyTest(TestCase):

  fixtures = ['test_fixtures'] # store this file inside the mockapp

  def setUp...

  def tearDown....

  *tests with db magic goes here*....

And all we need now is a very basic settings module with a sqlite3 db.

That's about it.

[markotibold]

It looks like this issue is actually already solved in a couple of tests, eg:

https://github.com/ekohl/django-rest-framework/blob/pep8/djangorestframework/tests/modelviews.py
https://github.com/ekohl/django-rest-framework/blob/pep8/djangorestframework/tests/serializer.py

@tomchristie or do you beleaeve there's more work needed done on this issue?

[tomchristie]

Ah yeah. Looks done. djangorestframework/tests/models.py exists, and does what this ticket was originally requesting. Thanks!