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Python Django Basics Test Time Test our Writer model

Pavle Coric
Pavle Coric
10,753 Points
Posted by Pavle Coric
Pavle Coric
10,753 Points

Django Basics- articles/test.py test case

I'm just curious what I'm doing wrong with my code to test that the email attribute is indeed in the output

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

class WriterModelTestCase(TestCase):
    '''Tests for the Writer model'''
    def test_model_creation(self):
        writer = Writer.objects.create(
            name='pavle coric', 
            email = 'coric.2@osu.edu',
        )
        self.assertIn(writer.email, 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)

1 Answer

Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 Points

Hi Pavle

You need to call the mailto method on the writer object you create.

from django.test import TestCase

from .models import Writer

class WriterModelTestCase(TestCase):
    '''Tests for the Writer model'''

    def test_writer_model(self):
      writer = Writer.objects.create(
        name='pavle coric', 
        email = 'coric.2@osu.edu',
        bio=""
      )
      self.assertIn(writer.email,writer.mailto())