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Django is ignoring my TestCase fixtures

I've got Django 1.4. In my test.py, I've got the requisite TestCase import:

from django.test import TestCase

To isolate the issue, I've added the line:

fixtures = ['westeros']

to the default example test case, i.e.

class SimpleTest(TestCase):
    fixtures = ['westeros']

    def test_basic_addition(self):
        """
        Tests that 1 + 1 always equals 2.
        """
        self.assertEqual(1 + 1, 2)

Using django-admin.py dumpdata, I created a fixture file called "westeros" in my customers/fixtures directory, where "customers" is an app that is listed in settings.INSTALLED_APPS.

When I run the test, at any verbosity, Django simply ignores the fixture and passes the test_basic_addition test. No error, no fixture loading. It's as if the TestCase import isn't there. Any ideas on what could be wrong or how to debug this?

Solution

  • It's ok to omit the extension when defining fixtures as you have done, i.e.

    fixtures = ['westeros']

    However, the fixture file itself must have the extension that corresponds to its serializer e.g westeros.json, westeros.json.zip or westeros.xml for json, zipped json or xml respectively.