def create_app(self):
"""
Instructs Flask to run these commands when we request this group of tests to be run.
"""
# Sets the configuration of the application to 'TestingConfig' in order
# that the tests use db_test, not db_dev or db_prod.
app.config.from_object('config.TestingConfig')
# Sets the logger to only show ERROR level logs and worse. We don't want
# to print a million things when running tests.
LOGGER.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
return app
def setUp(self):
app.config['TESTING'] = True
app.config['DEBUG'] = True
app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] = 'sqlite://'
self.app = app.test_client()
db.reflect()
db.drop_all()
db.create_all()
LOGGER.setLevel('ERROR')
# Add dummy metadata
self.user_category = UserCategory('Postdoc')
db.session.add(self.user_category)
self.country = Country('South Africa')
db.session.add(self.country)
# Add a dummy organisation
self.add_organisation(domain='org')
db.session.flush()
