When testing your applications I sometimes find myself needing to mock a request object. Unfortunately it is quite hard to find a good fake request factory which mimics a normal request.
Django has a class included for this purpose called RequestFactory. However it doesn’t fake the session object, breaking most of my test code. To fix this I wrote a tiny snippet implementing the RequestFactory with session and user support. Hope it helps 🙂
from django.core.handlers.base import BaseHandler
from django.test.client import RequestFactory
class RequestMock(RequestFactory):
def request(self, **request):
"Construct a generic request object."
request = RequestFactory.request(self, **request)
handler = BaseHandler()
handler.load_middleware()
for middleware_method in handler._request_middleware:
if middleware_method(request):
raise Exception("Couldn't create request mock object - "
"request middleware returned a response")
return request
