Disable a specific Django middleware during tests

Question

How can I disable a specific middleware (a custom middleware I wrote) only during tests?

Answer 1

There are several options:

• create a separate test_settings settings file for testing and then run tests via:

  python manage.py test --settings=test_settings 
  

• modify your settings.py on the fly if test is in sys.argv

  if 'test' in sys.argv:
       # modify MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES
        MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = list(MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES)
        MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.remove(<middleware_to_disable>)
  

Hope that helps.