I have a basic model which references both ForeignKeys and ManyToMany objects. In "edit" testing where you are taking the id of a view and making changes to it I ran into a problem and I'm curious if anyone else figured out a cleaner workaround. I found this post which started me down the right path
client = Client()
response = client.get(reverse("floorplan_update", kwargs={'pk': floorplan.id}))
data = response.context['form'].initial
# Ideally you should be able to do this..
response = client.post(reverse("floorplan_update", kwargs={'pk': floorplan.id}),
data=data, follow=True)
But you can't do this. In cases where you have FK's or M2M's you need to first do this ugliness...
client = Client()
response = client.get(reverse("floorplan_update", kwargs={'pk': floorplan.id}))
data = response.context['form'].initial
# Ugliness ensues..
data['document'] = open(__file__)
data['company']= data['company'].id
data['target']= data['target'].id
# Only now can you post..
response = client.post(reverse("floorplan_update", kwargs={'pk': floorplan.id}),
data=data, follow=True)
Has anyone else ran into this or is there a better way to deal with this?
