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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

You're reading from   Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging Building rigorously tested and bug-free Django applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197566
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Django Testing Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Does This Code Work? Doctests in Depth 3. Testing 1, 2, 3: Basic Unit Testing 4. Getting Fancier: Django Unit Test Extensions 5. Filling in the Blanks: Integrating Django and Other Test Tools 6. Django Debugging Overview 7. When the Wheels Fall Off: Understanding a Django Debug Page 8. When Problems Hide: Getting More Information 9. When You Don't Even Know What to Log: Using Debuggers 10. When All Else Fails: Getting Outside Help 11. When it's Time to Go Live: Moving to Production Index

Handling invalid Survey submissions


We've already coded the view that handles survey submission to re-display the page with errors instead of processing the results, if any errors are found in the submitted forms. On the display side, since we are using the as_p convenience method for displaying the form, it will take care of displaying any errors in the forms. So, we should have no code or template changes to make in order to see what happens when an invalid survey is submitted.

What would make a survey submission invalid? The only likely error case for our QuestionVoteForm is if no answer is chosen. What happens, then, if we attempt to submit a survey with missing answers? If we try it, we see that the result is not ideal:

There are at least two problems here. First, the placement of the error messages, above the survey questions, is confusing. It is hard to know what the first error message on the page is referring to, and the second error looks like it is associated with the first question...

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