Testing delete endpoint of Django Admin
I had to write a test today that involved testing the delete endpoint of
Django admin. But just after writing the first few lines of the test, I
realized that Django displays a confirmation page before actually deleting the
object. And since the test suite of Django does not offer a JavaScript runtime,
I wondered how I could follow the delete confirmation.
I looked for references inside OpenWISP’s codebase but couldn’t find anything. Then I resort to diving into Django’s code and voila, I got my answer.
Instead of a GET request, I just needed to send a POST request with
{'post': 'yes'} payload to the delete endpoint of the object.
Django’s codebase is a treasure.