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Fake File Uploads

In-browser testing frameworks (I'm using [Windmill](http://www.getwindmill.com/)) have trouble testing file uploads because javascript's security policy prevents them from setting the value of file input fields. Instead the tests must issue some sort of "fake" file upload request, but implementing this on an ad-hoc basis quickly gets ugly. This middleware is designed to support fake file uploads as transparently and as thoroughly as possible. For example, it is careful to properly trigger any file upload handlers so that things like upload progress reporting will work correctly. It can also simulate a slow file upload by sleeping between reads from the file. From the client-side point of view, each input field of type "file" has a similarly-named hidden field automatically prepended. Test scripts can simply set the value of this hidden field to trigger a fake upload, rather than having to set the value of the file input field itself.

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Fri 23 Jul 2010 Read More

Nested commit_on_success

This is a simple modification to the standard transaction.commit_on_success decorator that is aware of existing transactions. If a managed transaction is already active then the wrapped function is called directly, assuming the active transaction will clean up as appropriate. Otherwise, a standard commit_on_success is performed. I'm using this to wrap the save() method of models that manipulate other related models on save, e.g: @nested_commit_on_success def save(self): super(MyClass,self).save() for m in other_models: self.fix_up_other_model(m) m.save()

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Thu 11 Aug 2011 Read More

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