Question

I have followed the tutorial (parts 1 and 2) on the Django site (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/) and have managed to create a couple folders and to connect to my website. My app is called ‘app’, so my folder structure looks a bit like:

• mainFolder
• —__init__.py
• —test.py
• —djangoSite (created by Django)
• —— manage.py
• —— djangosite
• ——— other .py files
• —— app
• ———-__init__.py
• ——— models.py
• ——— other .py files

I changed the models.py file to be something like:

class Result(models.Model):
    options = models.CharField(max_length = 1000, unique = False)
    reverse = models.DecimalField(decimal_places = 6, max_digits = 12)

test.py currently runs a couple tests on some other classes. What I want is for my test.py class to run these tests and save the results in a database (in columns
and reverse). I was hoping to do something like this in my test.py class:

import models.py
if __name__ == "__main__":
    optionResult = someTestsThatRuns
    reverseResult = someOtherTestThatRuns
    models.Result c;
    c.options = optionResult 
    c.reverse = reverseResult 

I’d like for the last two lines to save the result in the database.
Is this possible? How would I import the models.py from the app folder?

Thank you

EDIT:
When I say someTestsThatRuns, these aren’t unit tests. They are practically a function that returns a list and some strings with either ‘PASS’ or ‘FAIL’. Sorry for the confusion

Answer 1

Create an empty __init__.py file in the app folder so Python treats the directory as a package. Then do:

from app.models import Result

optionResult = someTestsThatRuns
reverseResult = someOtherTestThatRuns
c = Result()
c.options = optionResult 
c.reverse = reverseResult
c.save()

That will save ‘c’ to the database.

Note that Django’s test suite can create its own test database, which runs tests on a separate database. You can read more about Django testing here.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/?from=olddocs