On 03/29/2014 02:36 PM, Shai Berger wrote: > On Saturday 29 March 2014 19:11:17 Harry Percival wrote: >> >> What I *am* saying is that, in my opinion, there's not much point in >> LiveServerTestCase if it doesn't do static files. So, to keep things >> simple, it would be simpler to remove it, and just have on LiveServer test >> class, that lives in .contrib if it has to... >> >> But maybe others would disagree? >> >> To explain a bit more -- what is LiveServerTestCase for? It's to let you >> run tests with (eg) selenium, against a "real" web server. And one of the >> most obvious reasons to do that is to test client-side stuff like >> javascript, ie stuff that depends on static files. And so that means that >> you have to either run collectstatic before every test run, or switch to >> StaticLiveServerCase. >> > > FWIW, I've been using LiveServerTestCase to test an app that, in some > circumstances, needs to send requests to other servers; in essence, mocking > those other servers. It's been very useful for this, and it does not require > any statics. > > Granted, that is a fringe case, and the main use-case remains tests involving > real browsers. Just pointing out that a LiveServerTestCase with no support > for > statics does have real uses.
Contrib.staticfiles is an optional way of handling static assets in Django. It probably is the most commonly-used way, but it is not required. It is possible to write a fully-functional Django project that uses static assets without using contrib.staticfiles to manage them. IMO this is good enough reason for both LiveServerTestCase and StaticLiveServerTestCase to exist. Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/53375D83.8060209%40oddbird.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
