fakeredis between multiple django views

Question

I have a test which involve multiple Django views
It seems that the fakeredis isn't shared between multiple views I tried running the following code:

import fakeredis
from testfixtures import Replacer


class TestWithFakeRedis(TestCase):
    def setup_redis(self, test_func):
        fake_redis = fakeredis.FakeStrictRedis()
        with Replacer() as replace:
            replace('app1.views.redis_connection', fake_redis)
            replace("app2.views.redis_connection", fake_redis)
            replace("app2.views.redis_connection", fake_redis)
            test_func(fake_redis)

    def test_something(self):
         def test_func(redis_connection):
            # some testing coded here
            pass
         self.setup_redis(test_func)

the fakeredis can't be passed between multiple views and it's something that I need
Thanks in advance,
Nadav

Answer 1

my solution involved using unittest.mock.patch:

import fakeredis
fake_redis = fakeredis.FakeRedis()

@patch("app_name1.views.redis_connection", fake_redis)
@patch("app_name2.views.redis_connection", fake_redis)
@patch("app_name3.views.redis_connection", fake_redis)
class TestSomethingWithRedis(TestCase):
    pass

if you want to check query inside your test(s) use fake_redis