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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 4669

Simple django unit tests giving 404 - What is the correct setup procedure?

I'm a ways down my Django project and have decided unit tests are a good idea. I am trying to write a simple unit test around a view, but I'm getting <h1>Not Found</h1><p>The requested URL /index was not found on this server.</p> from the response. Why is that happening?

Here is my unit test..

from django.test import TestCase

class BookerIndexTests(TestCase):
    def test_anonymous_request(self):
        response = self.client.get('booker:index')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

Within my urls.py, I have this line for my index: url(r'^$', views.index, name='index'),

Am I missing a setup step here? Why is this basic unit test throwing a 404 error?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 628

Answers (2)

Louis
Louis

Reputation: 151370

As Daniel Roseman pointed out, you can't use a pattern name directly in client.get(). If you want to use the pattern name rather than the paths themselves, you can use reverse. You code could look like this:

from django.test import TestCase
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse


class BookerIndexTests(TestCase):
    def test_anonymous_request(self):
        response = self.client.get(reverse('booker:index'))
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

This is typically what I do in my test suites because I prefer to use the pattern names over the paths.

Upvotes: 4

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599450

You're passing a URL pattern name to client.get(), rather than an actual path. You need to pass the actual index path, which is - according to that urlconf - "/".

Upvotes: 1

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