Overwrite auto_now for unittest

Question

I\'ve defined some timestamps for events in the database as auto_now_add, as the information should be stored with it\'s timestamp the same time the event is st

Answer 1

I've managed to create data overriding the default values using a fixture.

I've created a test_data.json file with the data in the following format:

[
{
    "model": "stats_agg.newevent",
    "pk": 1,
    "fields": {
        "name": "event1",
        "quantity":0.0,
        "timestamp": "2010-02-15 00:27:40"
     }
},
{
    "model": "stats_agg.newevent",
    "pk": 2,
    "fields": {
        "name": "event1",
        "quantity":1.0,
        "timestamp": "2010-02-15 00:27:40"
     }
},
...

and then add to the test unit

class SimpleTest(TestCase):
   fixtures = ['test_data.json']