How to Unit Test a Django Model with managed = False
2018-02-05 17:02 (7 years ago)
ytyng
In Django, when you set Meta: managed = False on a model, you may encounter the following error during unit tests from other apps when trying to perform operations like create():
django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: (1146, "Table 'your_app.your_model' doesn't exist")
This error often occurs when you attempt to test a model created using ./manage.py inspectdb.
In such cases,
Simplifying the Testing of Unmanaged Database Models in Django | Caktus Group
provides a workaround, but
you can also try the following in your your_app/tests/__init__.py:
import sys
if 'test' in sys.argv:
# For testing
from ..models import YourModel
YourModel._meta.managed = True
Writing this in tests/__init__.py should be sufficient.
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