django unit test client response has empty request

Question

in my test I do:

self.client.get('/')

in my template I access:

request.LANGUAGE_CODE

in the browser it works fine with the Django client I get

Failed lookup for key [LANGUAGE_CODE] in ''

From the output I believe that the request is not set in the client.

`LANGUAGE_CODE` is a settings.py configuration. Why do you do a key lookup for such a key in the request in the first place? — Adelin, Dec 13 '18 at 12:29
request.LANGUAGE_CODE yields 'en' for my .com pages and 'de' for my german pages. This way I link to different sources for each language. — ohlr, Dec 13 '18 at 12:36
ok maybe I don't understand the question/problem then (it's not clear what's happening and at what time) — Adelin, Dec 13 '18 at 13:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 13 '18 at 12:25

I found the error myself:

The test client was working just fine. Some of the sites were really not working.

In my views.py I had the following bug:

wrong code:

return render(some_other_view, 'page.html')

correct code:

return render(request, 'page.html')

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