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running django tests for custom hue app

storysj — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:00:29 GMT

Is it possible to use the django testing framework to test a custom hue app build with the hue SDK? When I try to use the manage.py that is part of my app, I get

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured

errors, related to my settings.py module. But I can't seem to find a different entrypoint to try running the tests. What's the workflow for writing and running django tests for a custom hue app?

Re: running django tests for custom hue app

Romainr — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 19:00:20 GMT

The scenario is the same as
http://gethue.com/tutorial-how-to-run-the-hue-integration-tests/, did you
do 'test specific your_app'?

Romain

Re: running django tests for custom hue app

storysj — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:23:16 GMT

Hi, thanks for your response.

I'd tried using the build/enve/bin/hue executable as well, but got the below stack trace. I'd just assumed that I was using it impropperly. Any idea why it would complain about missing windmill.authoring?

$ ./BUILD/hue/build/env/bin/hue test specific myapp.tests
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./BUILD/hue/build/env/bin/hue", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('desktop==3.6.0', 'console_scripts', 'hue')()
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/manage_entry.py", line 60, in entry
    execute_manager(settings)
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 459, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 382, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 261, in fetch_command
    klass = load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.5-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 69, in load_command_class
    module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name))
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.4.5-py2.7.egg/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module
    __import__(name)
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/management/commands/test.py", line 35, in <module>
    from desktop.management.commands import test_windmill
  File "/Users/sstory/Desktop/Dev/Stash/synthesys-cloud/BUILD/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/management/commands/test_windmill.py", line 26, in <module>
    from windmill.authoring import djangotest
ImportError: No module named windmill.authoring

Re: running django tests for custom hue app

storysj — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:26:40 GMT

ended up just running

hue/build/env/bin/pip install windmill

and then

hue/build/env/bin/hue test specific myapp.tests

worked just fine. Seems weird that that dependency wouldn't have installed itself during `make apps`.

Anyhow, thanks for your help.

Re: running django tests for custom hue app

Romainr — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:47:20 GMT

Great!

Weird indeed, make apps pulls dynamically some packages, maybe the repos
were down at the time.

Romain