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Python Django Basics Test Time Test our Writer model

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Django 1st unittest challenge

There is something that I'm not doing quite right for this unittest but I'm not sure what?

articles/tests.py 
from django.test import TestCase
from .models import Writer


class WriterModelTestCase(TestCase):
    '''Tests for the Writer model'''
    def writer_creation(self):
      writer = Writer.create(
        name= 'Bob'
        email = 'bob@moo.com'
        bio = 'blah de blah'
        )
      self.assertIn(email, writer.mailto())
articles/models.py 
from django.db import models


class Article(models.Model):
    headline = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    publish_date = models.DateTimeField()
    content = models.TextField()
    writer = models.ForeignKey('Writer')

    def __str__(self):
        return self.headline


class Writer(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    email = models.EmailField()
    bio = models.TextField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

    def mailto(self):
        return '{} <{}>'.format(self.name, self.email)

4 Answers

Ken Alger
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Ken Alger
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Y B;

When testing, our test names have to follow a certain format. If you re-watch the video, or recall from the Python Testing course, test names need to start with "test". That should take care of your code to get through the challenge.

Happy coding,

Ken

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Thanks- i didn't realise that the name of the test function name was checked. I take that is a requirement in the unites module?

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Y B, I'm not sure if you got this working yet or not.

The generic error you keep getting should be telling you to check your Functions name. Like Ken Alger said, a functions Test Name must follow a certain naming format to get this to pass. I also spent more time than necessary picking apart why my code was failing because the error was too generic. Everything in my code was fine except the name of the function.

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Go it working thanks Ken's answer fixed it.

Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
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The prompt says to test that the email attribute is in the mailto() method. You're testing for email which isn't defined.

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Thanks I fixed another couple of silly errors, but still can't get it to work unfortunately. Hard to debug as the challenge just says your test didn't pass. If I put it in a separate editor for some reason the test doesn't run?

from django.test import TestCase
from .models import Writer


class WriterModelTestCase(TestCase):
    '''Tests for the Writer model'''
    def writer_creation(self):
      writer = Writer.objects.create(
        name= 'Bob',
        email = 'bob@moo.com',
        bio = 'blah de blah',
        )
      self.assertIn(writer.email, writer.mailto())