How do I use models with different properties for testing purposes?

Django Internals ORM
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Edit: My apologies if this was posted in the wrong board. This is either about migrations/db backends or it’s about using Django, but after I posted I realized it might lean more towards the latter.

Issue: My models have managed = False in the meta, which means when I run tests, no new tables can be created. I thought I solved it by doing the below:

  1. Make a test_migrations folder within my module folder.
  2. Put my migrations file in there with managed = False commented out
  3. Putting the below into my settings.py
if 'test' in sys.argv:
    MIGRATION_MODULES = {
        'webapi': 'webapi.test_migrations',
        }

I guess what’s happening is that when I run tests, the tests cannot execute “makemigrations” so this strategy is failing. I’m pretty sure?? My _meta.managed is still False when I do this.

I also tried changing _meta.managed = True right in the tests, but I’m not sure when Django uses this property to check if it is allowed to make tables or not, so ultimately I think it failed.

Any hints?

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Hi,
It would be better to put the question in “Using Django” category.

The best way to test that is to have table DDL script (SQL) and load/create table before run tests. It will exactly simulate what you have on production.
Other way is to try mock some methods you will call.