Enable Unittest for Django Projects in VSCode

[@plexsheep1296]

This was very helpful, thanks. I couldn't figure out how to do it.

[@ibragdzh]

Thanks, but this is quite inconvenient to write those setup() in every test file

[@johnsolly]

I agree, If you find a better way, let me know!

[@keivanpourzang4633]

great thanks!

[@johnsolly]

Just learned if you add "django": true to your config, you can debug the django HTML templates! See -> code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/debugging under 'Specific app types"
You might also want to add these two lines of code to the end of your test file so you can re-run the test after hitting a breakpoint.
if __name__ == "__main__":
unittest.main()

[@xuelinli3813]

I'm currently using the same setup, but I find it really confusing as manage.py test will leverage a test database while setting up like this will use the production database. Any idea how to configure it to use the test database? Trying out but no luck so far

[@johnsolly]

I also had this same issue. The workaround I came up with is to check for keywords in sys.argv to find out what has started the Django instance. If it's pytest, I switch the database out.
import sys
found_count = len(
{item for item in ["pytest"] if any(item in arg for arg in sys.argv)}
)
if found_count > 0:
DATABASES = {
"default": {
"ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3",
"NAME": os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "db.sqlite3"),
}
}
You can see my whole settings.py here
github.com/jsolly/blogthedata/blob/master/django_project/django_project/settings.py

[@xuelinli3813]

@@johnsolly Thanks for the info! I'm using unittest so I did figure out a workaround solution. I created another settings.py file and ask all vscode tests routing to the test database. I find that the setup only works for vscode, so this is what I end up doing at least for now.

[@johnsolly]

@@xuelinli3813 I recently did the same. I'm using two postgres databases. One for testing, one for development. You can see how I split up my settings files here
github.com/jsolly/blogthedata/tree/master/django_project/django_project/settings

[@ajinzrathod]

I m getting: Subprocess exited unsuccessfully with exit code 1 and signal null on workspace. path/to/my/project/ Creating and sending error discovery payload. pytest test discovery error for workspace: The python test process was terminated before it could exit on its own, the process errored with: Code: 1, Signal: null for workspace path/to/my/project/

[@americanconsumer4496]

same issue here

[@ajinzrathod]

Hey, I tried a lot. So after doing everything as he mentioned in the video, just restart your vs code. Even if that doesn’t work, try to reboot.
That might solve the problem