Override Django cache settings in tests
Take a look at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/testing/tools/#overriding-settingsYou can use decorator override_settings
from django.test import TestCase, override_settingsclass MyTestCase(TestCase): @override_settings(CACHES=...) def test_something(self): ....
Yes, it is possible to override a setting. From Django documentation: Testing:
For testing purposes it’s often useful to change a setting temporarily and revert to the original value after running the testing code. For this use case Django provides a standard Python context manager ...
settings()
, which can be used like this:
from django.test import TestCaseclass LoginTestCase(TestCase): def test_login(self): # Override the LOGIN_URL setting with self.settings(CACHES={'default': {'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache'}}): response = self.client.get(...)
I have tested the above approach with several other settings myself, but not with the particular cache setting, but this is the general idea.
EDIT (credits @Alasdair):
Regrading the particular setting override, the following warning can be found in the documentation:
Altering the
CACHES
setting is possible, but a bit tricky if you are using internals that make using of caching, likedjango.contrib.sessions
. For example, you will have to reinitialize the session backend in a test that uses cached sessions and overridesCACHES
.