Django: is there a way to count SQL queries from an unit test?

user_140185 0
Viewed 28523

I am trying to find out the number of queries executed by a utility function. I have written a unit test for this function and the function is working well. What I would like to do is track the number of SQL queries executed by the function so that I can see if there is any improvement after some refactoring.

def do_something_in_the_database():
    # Does something in the database
    # return result

class DoSomethingTests(django.test.TestCase):
    def test_function_returns_correct_values(self):
        self.assertEqual(n, <number of SQL queries executed>)

EDIT: I found out that there is a pending Django feature request for this. However the ticket is still open. In the meantime is there another way to go about this?

django-testing django-orm django
8 Answers

Vinay's response is correct, with one minor addition.

Django's unit test framework actually sets DEBUG to False when it runs, so no matter what you have in settings.py, you will not have anything populated in connection.queries in your unit test unless you re-enable debug mode. The Django docs explain the rationale for this as:

Regardless of the value of the DEBUG setting in your configuration file, all Django tests run with DEBUG=False. This is to ensure that the observed output of your code matches what will be seen in a production setting.

If you're certain that enabling debug will not affect your tests (such as if you're specifically testing DB hits, as it sounds like you are), the solution is to temporarily re-enable debug in your unit test, then set it back afterward:

def test_myself(self):
    from django.conf import settings
    from django.db import connection

    settings.DEBUG = True
    connection.queries = []

    # Test code as normal
    self.assert_(connection.queries)

    settings.DEBUG = False
user_722470

Here is the working prototype of context manager withAssertNumQueriesLessThan

import json
from contextlib import contextmanager
from django.test.utils import CaptureQueriesContext
from django.db import connections

@contextmanager
def withAssertNumQueriesLessThan(self, value, using='default', verbose=False):
    with CaptureQueriesContext(connections[using]) as context:
        yield   # your test will be run here
    if verbose:
        msg = "\r\n%s" % json.dumps(context.captured_queries, indent=4)
    else:
        msg = None
    self.assertLess(len(context.captured_queries), value, msg=msg)

It can be simply used in your unit tests for example for checking the number of queries per Django REST API call

    with self.withAssertNumQueriesLessThan(10):
        response = self.client.get('contacts/')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

Also you can provide exact DB using and verbose if you want to pretty-print list of actual queries to stdout

user_17314600

If you have DEBUG set to True in your settings.py (presumably so in your test environment) then you can count queries executed in your test as follows:

from django.db import connection

class DoSomethingTests(django.test.TestCase):
    def test_something_or_other(self):
        num_queries_old = len(connection.queries)
        do_something_in_the_database()
        num_queries_new = len(connection.queries)
        self.assertEqual(n, num_queries_new - num_queries_old)
user_1189030

If you want to use a decorator for that there is a nice gist: 

import functools
import sys
import re
from django.conf import settings
from django.db import connection

def shrink_select(sql):
    return re.sub("^SELECT(.+)FROM", "SELECT .. FROM", sql)

def shrink_update(sql):
    return re.sub("SET(.+)WHERE", "SET .. WHERE", sql)

def shrink_insert(sql):
    return re.sub("\((.+)\)", "(..)", sql)

def shrink_sql(sql):
    return shrink_update(shrink_insert(shrink_select(sql)))

def _err_msg(num, expected_num, verbose, func=None):
    func_name = "%s:" % func.__name__ if func else ""
    msg = "%s Expected number of queries is %d, actual number is %d.\n" % (func_name, expected_num, num,)
    if verbose > 0:
        queries = [query['sql'] for query in connection.queries[-num:]]
        if verbose == 1:
            queries = [shrink_sql(sql) for sql in queries]
        msg += "== Queries == \n" +"\n".join(queries)
    return msg


def assertNumQueries(expected_num, verbose=1):

    class DecoratorOrContextManager(object):
        def __call__(self, func):  # decorator
            @functools.wraps(func)
            def inner(*args, **kwargs):
                handled = False
                try:
                    self.__enter__()
                    return func(*args, **kwargs)
                except:
                    self.__exit__(*sys.exc_info())
                    handled = True
                    raise
                finally:
                    if not handled:
                        self.__exit__(None, None, None)
            return inner

        def __enter__(self):
            self.old_debug = settings.DEBUG
            self.old_query_count = len(connection.queries)
            settings.DEBUG = True

        def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
            if not type:
                num = len(connection.queries) - self.old_query_count
                assert expected_num == num, _err_msg(num, expected_num, verbose)
            settings.DEBUG = self.old_debug

    return DecoratorOrContextManager()
user_85480360
Related