Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#23682 closed New feature (fixed)
Stronger redirect loop detection in the test client
Reported by: | Wojtek Ruszczewski | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Testing framework | Version: | dev |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
The test client has a mechanism to detect circular redirects. I'd like to propose two changes to it;
- when a loop is detected, throw an exception rather than break silently;
- detect and complain about very (possibly infinitely) long redirect chains with differing URLs (at least when they only differ by a view argument value or query string).
A few tests that are not part of the proposed changes, but demonstrate how one could try to test for loops (currently 3 of these just past, while a browser would run into a loop, and 2 actually loop indefinitely).
Change History (10)
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Accepted |
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Type: | Uncategorized → New feature |
It seems reasonable to me as infinite redirects could indeed be something a developer would want to be notified about. Skimming the original ticket where this was added (#4476), I couldn't find anything about why the decision was made.
Combining the test_client
and test_client_regress
tests would probably be welcome, but making it a separate commit/ticket is best.
comment:3 by , 10 years ago
I reviewed and tested this patch. It looks good to me, although the import statements should reflect Django's convention of being alphabetized.
Do you want to create a pull request from your branch? This has the nice side-effect of triggering an automated test run and verifying the merge status.
comment:4 by , 10 years ago
Thanks. Did some imports reordering (see also #23860) and created a pull request.
comment:5 by , 10 years ago
Needs documentation: | set |
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Patch needs improvement: | set |
Thanks for adding the pull request. I left a few comments on it.
comment:6 by , 10 years ago
Thanks again; rebased, undid the unnecessary reordering. added docs on the new exception and a point to the 1.8 release notes.
comment:7 by , 10 years ago
Needs documentation: | unset |
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Patch needs improvement: | unset |
comment:9 by , 10 years ago
Triage Stage: | Accepted → Ready for checkin |
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comment:10 by , 10 years ago
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
Proposed changes:
CircularRedirectError
;Could all the loop prevention tests maybe live in
test_client
rather thantest_client_regress
?