Andrey Khavryuchenko himself

twill + rss

Rerunning my old post about testing django with twill, since I’ve seen this issue raised again.

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Now have a pleasure of not starting django development webserver, nor using apache to do http-level tests in my project.

Thanks to twill and its wsgi integration.

Works smoothly now, but caused me little cursing when twill refused to see rss feed.

After digging the twill code I’ve changed a single line – still don’t know how correct is this:

--- /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.9b1-py2.4.egg/twill/wsgi_intercept.py.orig 2007-06-04 21:10:37 +0300
+++ /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.9b1-py2.4.egg/twill/wsgi_intercept.py      2007-06-04 21:10:45 +0300
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
                 for data in self.write_results:
                     self.output.write(data)

-            if generator_data:
+            if generator_data is not None:
                 self.output.write(generator_data)
                 for data in self.result:
                     self.output.write(data)

Nevertheless it didn’t break anything and I have a luxury to test rss feeds too:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# $Id: tests.py 326 2007-06-04 15:58:48Z akhavr $

from nose.tools import *
from twill.commands import *
from twill import add_wsgi_intercept

def setup():
    import os
    os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "web.settings"

    from django.core.servers.basehttp import AdminMediaHandler
    from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler

    app = AdminMediaHandler(WSGIHandler())
    add_wsgi_intercept("127.0.0.1", 9876, lambda: app)

@with_setup(setup)
def test_rss():
    'test rss feed'
    go('http://127.0.0.1:9876/kds-djangofeed/feed/rss/')
    code('200')
    find('<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Django Feed Planet.</title>')
    return