Testing FormWizard

[James Rivett-Carnac]

I am trying to write test cases for a django 1.4 CookieWizardView (django.contrib.formtools.wizard.views.CookieWizardView), and I'm not sure how to handle sending multiple posts to the view.

class TestWizardView(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.form_one_post = QueryDict('field_1=value')
        self.form_two_post = QueryDict('field_2=value2')
        self.c = Client()

    def test_form(self):
        response = self.c.post('/wzd/url/',self.form_one_post)
        self.assertContains(...)
        response = self.c.post('/wzd/url/',self.form_two_post)
        self.assertRedirects(...)  # Successful post should redirect to Done page.

But when I do this, i get:
ValidationError: 'ManagementForm data is missing or has been tampered.'

This makes sense, since I haven't put any post information for the management_form (django.contrib.formtools.wizard.forms.ManagementForm), but I don't know where to get that information/where to put that information or what that information is supposed to be.

Any help on how to resolve this or better ways to implement a view test for a wizard would be appreciated.

James

[jscn]

On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 10:30:22 UTC+8, jscn wrote:

> I've been having the exact same problem. After looking at the unit tests for the form wizard and much messing around, I eventually figured it out. You're right about needing to pass in some extra data in.
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> Specifically, you need to add a field to the POST data called 'your_views_name-current_step' with the zero-based value of the step to which you're POSTing. Additionally, you need to prepend the zero-based step number to the names of the other fields you're POSTing.
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> Assuming you have some classes like:
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> class MyForm(forms.Form):
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> some_field = forms.CharField()
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> class MyWizard(SessionWizardView):
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> # ...do some stuff...
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> And a url like:
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> url(r'^wizard/$', views.MyWizard.as_view([MyForm, MyOtherForm]))
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> Then your test needs to look like:
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> class TestWizardView(TestCase):
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> def test_form(self):
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> data = {'my_wizard_view-current_step': '0', '0-some_field': 'whatever'}
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> response = self.client.post('/wizard/', data=data)
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> # your assertions here
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> Josh

Oops, that should be: data = {'my_wizard-current_step': '0', '0-some_field': 'whatever'}