I have a django project structured like this:
Base Directory
| manage.py
| configDir
\
| settings.py , urls.py, wsgi.py
|mainApp
\
|urls.py , views, models etc.
| tests
\
|urlTest.py
(To clarify, there is a django config directory and a mainApp directory. The mainApp has its own urls.py and the tests directory. All directories are python modules with an init.py)
When I run
manage.py runserver
The application runs as expected on the django server.
However, when running
manage.py test
I encounter the following error:
django.urls.exceptions.NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'index' not found. 'index' is not a valid view function or pattern name.
The test code snippet:
[...]
class TestSth(BaseTest):
def setUp(self):
[some database setup such as users etc]
def test_get(self):
pprint.pprint(reverse('index'))
config/urls.py contains:
from django.conf.urls import url, include
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^mainApp/', include('mainApp.urls')),
]
mainApp/urls.py includes:
from django.conf.urls import url
from . import views
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
app_name = 'app'
urlpatterns = [
#/app/
url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
[...]
If anyone can suggest what might be done wrong here, I would greatly appreciate it. This seems puzzling to me.