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Python Django Basics Test Time Test our Writer model

Max Xie
Max Xie
1,591 Points

How do I write a test so that it checks that a method returns a certain attribute? The hint is to use self.assertIn()

This is my code so far, I have hard coded since my more 'general' answers aren't correct either.

from django.test import TestCase from .models import Writer

class WriterModelTestCase(TestCase): '''Tests for the Writer model''' def test_email_in_mailto(): writer = Writer.objects.create(email="test@test.se") test_output = writer.mailto('jason@statham.com') self.assertIn('test@test.se', test_output)

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

class WriterModelTestCase(TestCase):
    '''Tests for the Writer model'''
    def test_email_in_mailto():
        writer = Writer.objects.create(email="maxxie@kth.se")
        test_output = writer.mailto('jason@statham.com')
        self.assertIn('maxxie@kth.se', test_output)
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

Tim Ding
Tim Ding
11,768 Points

Max,

Not sure why you are doing this - test_output = writer.mailto('jason@statham.com'). The definition of the 'mailto' function shows it only takes the 'self' argument and returns a concatenated string containing this (self) writer's name and email. Variable 'test_output' should be assigned the output of the function call. Then you can call self.assertIn() to check if the writer's email is a substring of 'test_output', which should evaluate to True.

Try the following code and see if it works. writer = Writer.objects.create(name='Max', email="maxxie@kth.se", bio='a writer') test_output = writer.mailto() self.assertIn(writer.email, test_output)

Thanks, Tim