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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Overview of this book

Bugs are a time consuming burden during software development. Django's built-in test framework and debugging support help lessen this burden. This book will teach you quick and efficient techniques for using Django and Python tools to eradicate bugs and ensure your Django application works correctly. This book will walk you step by step through development of a complete sample Django application. You will learn how best to test and debug models, views, URL configuration, templates, and template tags. This book will help you integrate with and make use of the rich external environment of test and debugging tools for Python and Django applications. The book starts with a basic overview of testing. It will highlight areas to look out for while testing. You will learn about different kinds of tests available, and the pros and cons of each, and also details of test extensions provided by Django that simplify the task of testing Django applications. You will see an illustration of how external tools that provide even more sophisticated testing features can be integrated into Django's framework. On the debugging front, the book illustrates how to interpret the extensive debugging information provided by Django's debug error pages, and how to utilize logging and other external tools to learn what code is doing.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Customizing the admin add and change survey pages


We've already seen how the Django admin application provides a convenient way to examine and manipulate data in our database. In the previous chapter, we set up the admin with some simple customizations to allow editing Questions inline with Surveys and Answers inline with Questions. Besides those inline customizations, however, we made no changes to the admin defaults.

One additional change that would be good to make to the admin is to ensure that Survey opens and closes dates are valid. Clearly for this application, it makes no sense to have an opens date that is later than closes, but there is no way for the admin to know that. In this section, we will customize the admin to enforce our application requirement on the relationship between opens and closes. We will also develop a test for this customization.

Developing a custom survey form

The first step in implementing this admin customization is to implement a form for Survey that includes...