Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#15280 closed (wontfix)
Django validation error messages are always shown in English when running unit tests
| Reported by: | Denilson Figueiredo de Sá | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Uncategorized | Version: | 1.2 |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
How to reproduce:
- Start a new project and set LANGUAGE_CODE to something other than 'en-us'. For instance, let's put 'pt-br'.
- Create a view that renders a bounded form.
- Pass invalid data to that form, so that the form will output some (django built-in) validation error messages.
- Look at the error message at the browser. Notice it is in Portuguese (or whatever language you have set).
- Now write a unit test that checks if your view actually shows that error message.
- BOO! The test fails! When running unit tests, the django error messages are shown in English, ignoring the LANGUAGE_CODE setting.
I'm attaching a tarball with a minimalistic project showing this bug.
In my opinion, django should behave the same whenever running as server or running the unit tests. Thus, I believe this behavior is a bug.
Tested against Django 1.2.4
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by , 13 years ago
| Attachment: | django_language_during_tests.tar.gz added |
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comment:1 by , 13 years ago
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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What about re-usable apps that ship with tests that include testing error strings as you are talking about? They would all suddenly start failing on projects with non-en-us locales set, because they were written to test against default en-us string values.
If you want to test a specific language error string, then you need to activate that locale in your test. How to do that is noted on this page: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/custom-management-commands/.