Django Testing - check messages for a view that redirects

Question

I have been writing tests for one of my django applications and have been looking to get around this problem for quite some time now. I have a view that sends messages using

Answer 1

You can use get_messages() with response.wsgi_request like this (tested in Django 1.10):

from django.contrib.messages import get_messages  
...
def test_view(self):
    response = self.client.get('/some-url/') # you don't need follow=True
    self.assertRedirects(response, '/some-other-url/')
    # each element is an instance of  django.contrib.messages.storage.base.Message
    all_messages = [msg for msg in get_messages(response.wsgi_request)]

    # here's how you test the first message
    self.assertEqual(all_messages[0].tags, "success")
    self.assertEqual(all_messages[0].message, "you have done well")