Quick and dirty way to intercept the various get/post calls happening during Django tests

django_logging_client.py

import atexit
import csv
import json
from collections import namedtuple
from django.test.client import Client
Line = namedtuple('Line', ['method', 'args', 'kwargs', 'status_code'])


class LoggingClient(Client):
    df = [['method', 'args', 'kwargs', 'status_code']]
    def get(self, *args, **kwargs):
        # TODO: report from which test it came from as well
        response = super(LoggingClient, self).get(*args, **kwargs)
        # TODO: find out what is the current test where it comes from
        self.df.append(Line(
            'get',
            json.dumps(args),
            json.dumps(kwargs),
            response.status_code,
        ))
        return response
    def post(self, *args, **kwargs):
        response = super(LoggingClient, self).post(*args, **kwargs)
        self.df.append(Line(
            'post',
            json.dumps(args),
            json.dumps(kwargs),
            response.status_code,
        ))
        return response
def dump_results():
    with open('results.csv', 'w') as out:
        writer = csv.writer(out)
        for line in LoggingClient.df:
            writer.writerow(line)

# can be used by simply changing the default client
# on your test base class

class MyTestCase(TestCase):
    client = LoggingClient()

atexit.register(dump_results)

The result can be then loaded into pandas and generate some nice stats about your tests using self.client