Django tests with MongoEngine

I took me hours to make this work finally


In this post, I'm assuming you know how to run django 1.7 with mongoengine 0.8.7


If you wanna have tests in a folder instead of a single file please check my other post

http://techamad.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/django-mongoengine-tests-directoryfolder.html


tests.py

from django.test import TestCase

from django.test.simple import DjangoTestSuiteRunner

class NoSQLTestRunner(DjangoTestSuiteRunner):

    def setup_databases(self):

        pass

    def teardown_databases(self, *args):

        pass

class NoSQLTestCase(TestCase):

    def _fixture_setup(self):

        pass

    def _fixture_teardown(self):

        pass

#Testing the home page

class HomePageInitTestCase(TestCase):

           

    def test_page(self):

        response = self.client.get('/')

        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200, 'error in status_code of the homepage init test')

    def _fixture_setup(self):

        return

    def _fixture_teardown(self):

        return

setting.py

import os

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (

    'mongoengine.django.auth.MongoEngineBackend',

)

LOGIN_URL = '/login'

#Needed for the tests

TEST_RUNNER = 'yourapp.tests.NoSQLTestRunner'

from mongoengine import connect

the_db = connect("mydatabasename")

AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'mongo_auth.MongoUser'

MONGOENGINE_USER_DOCUMENT = 'mongoengine.django.auth.User'

SESSION_ENGINE = 'mongoengine.django.sessions'

SESSION_SERIALIZER = 'mongoengine.django.sessions.BSONSerializer'

# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production

# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!

SECRET_KEY = 'asdfasdfsadfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfdasfasdfa71j*^u_b+2'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!

DEBUG = True

TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (

    BASE_DIR+'/templates',

)

MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR+'/media/'

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = (

    'django.contrib.admin',

    'django.contrib.auth',

    'django.contrib.contenttypes',

    'django.contrib.sessions',

    'django.contrib.messages',

    'django.contrib.staticfiles',

    'mongoengine.django.mongo_auth',

    'myapp',

)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (

    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',

    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',

    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',

    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',

    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',

    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',

    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',

)

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS=(

    "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",

    "django.core.context_processors.debug",

    "django.core.context_processors.i18n",

    "django.core.context_processors.media",

    "django.core.context_processors.static",

    "django.core.context_processors.tz",

    "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",

    "django.core.context_processors.request"

)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'myapp.urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'myapp.wsgi.application'

# Database

# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {

    'default': {

        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.dummy',

    }

}

# Internationalization

# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)

# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

References:
http://staltz.com/djangoconfi-mongoengine/#/18
http://toastdriven.com/blog/2011/apr/10/guide-to-testing-in-django/

To see an actual app please refer to my OnToology application on Github:
https://github.com/OnToology/OnToology