def make_new_person(candidate, **options):
legal_name = (candidate.get('other_name', None) or '').title()
if legal_name:
legal_name += ' '
legal_name += (candidate.get('surname', None) or '').title()
slug_to_use = slugify(legal_name)
suffix = 2
while True:
try:
Person.objects.get(slug=slug_to_use)
except Person.DoesNotExist:
# Then this slug_to_use is fine, so just break:
break
slug_to_use = re.sub('-?\d*$', '', slug_to_use) + '-' + str(suffix)
suffix += 1
new_person = Person(legal_name=legal_name, slug=slug_to_use)
maybe_save(new_person, **options)
return new_person
def setUp(self):
# create a load of test people in the database
names = [
u'Adam Ant',
u'Bobby Smith',
u'Fred Jones',
u'Joe Bloggs',
u'Joe Smith',
u'Josepth Smyth',
]
for name in names:
Person(
slug=slugify(name),
legal_name=name,
gender='m',
).save()
# Haystack indexes are not touched when fixtures are dumped. Run this
# so that other changes cannot affect these tests. Have added a note to
# a HayStack issue regarding this:
# https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack/issues/226
call_command('rebuild_index', interactive=False, verbosity=0)