Test Multiple HTML Templates To Make Sure They Return 200

Question

I have 100s of HTML Templates that I have to test and don't know how to test each individual one to make sure that they load properly. I assume i would use a for loop through my project urls.py but when I do this i get the following error:

AttributeError: 'URLResolver' object has no attribute 'name'

from django.test import SimpleTestCase, TestCase, Client
from django.test.utils import setup_test_environment
from django.urls import reverse, URLPattern
from django.conf import settings
import importlib
from foo.urls import urlpatterns

# Create your tests here.
class LoginTest(SimpleTestCase):
    def login_view_test(self):
        client = Client()
        for url in urlpatterns:
            response = client.get(reverse(url.name))
            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
            print(str(reverse(url.name)) + " Status Code:" + str(response.status_code))

For some reason the code says that the URLResolver has no name attribute, I feel this error is it telling me I need to look in a different location for the name to reverse I just don't know where to look.

when removing the .name in the reverse tag, I got this error:

<URLResolver <module 'account.urls' from '/home/company/company_project/account/urls.py'> (None:None) 'account/'>

Answer 1

You don't have to give a urlpattern a name.

For example:

...
path('someurl/', generic.RedirectView.as_view(url='/anyurl/')),
...

results in a URLPattern without a name

<URLPattern 'someurl/'>  # no name

In your case you could probably directly use the stored route:

from django.test import SimpleTestCase, TestCase, Client
from django.test.utils import setup_test_environment
from django.urls import reverse, URLPattern
from django.conf import settings
import importlib
from foo.urls import urlpatterns

# Create your tests here.
class LoginTest(SimpleTestCase):
    def login_view_test(self):
        client = Client()
        for urlpattern in urlpatterns:
            if urlpattern.name is None:
                continue
            response = client.get(urlpattern.pattern._route))
            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
            print(str(reverse(url.name)) + " Status Code:" + str(response.status_code))

Be aware that, that this does not work if you have pass some parameters, like primary keys.

Probably not yet the best solutions, since we are using a internal attribute, but it solves your issue :-)