Django unit test - response context is None

[Web Architect]

Hi,

We are using django 1.11 for our ecommerce site.

We are developing unit tests for our views using django testing framework. We are facing issue with a simple implementation:

import unittest

from django.urls import reverse

from django.test import Client

class ViewTests(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):

        self.client = Client()

    def test_View(self):

        url = '/some-url/'

        

        response = self.client.get(url)

        products = response.context['products']

In the above test case, response.context is coming out to be None and hence, response.context['products'] is throwing exception. Whereas when I run the same on django admin shell, response.context has context object dict. 

I am quite confused why this is happening. I couldn't find any reason in the django documents.

Would really appreciate if someone could help me with the above.  

Thanks,

        

[Jason]

Two things I can see:

you should be inheriting from TestCase in django.test, not unittest.  

Second, you should find your answer at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27136048/django-unit-test-response-context-is-none . I believe the attribute you're trying to access was deprecated in django 1.8 and was probably removed in 1.11

[Web Architect]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your prompt response. 

I was using Django TestCase but it wasn't working then. Hence, I resorted to unittest as shown in Django 1.11 documentation. Also, the attribute was working fine in django shell. 

Please refer to the documentation here:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/testing/tools/#overriding-settings

I will check the link you have provided for the solution.

Thanks.