Don't actually close DB connections during tests

channels/testing/__init__.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-from asgiref.testing import ApplicationCommunicator  # noqa
-
+from .application import ApplicationCommunicator  # noqa
 from .http import HttpCommunicator  # noqa
 from .live import ChannelsLiveServerTestCase  # noqa
 from .websocket import WebsocketCommunicator  # noqa

channels/testing/application.py

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from unittest import mock
+
+from asgiref.testing import ApplicationCommunicator as BaseApplicationCommunicator
+
+
+def no_op():
+    pass
+
+
+class ApplicationCommunicator(BaseApplicationCommunicator):
+    async def send_input(self, message):
+        with mock.patch("channels.db.close_old_connections", no_op):
+            return await super().send_input(message)
+
+    async def receive_output(self, timeout=1):
+        with mock.patch("channels.db.close_old_connections", no_op):
+            return await super().receive_output(timeout)

channels/testing/http.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
 
-from asgiref.testing import ApplicationCommunicator
+from channels.testing.application import ApplicationCommunicator
 
 
 class HttpCommunicator(ApplicationCommunicator):

channels/testing/websocket.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import json
 from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
 
-from asgiref.testing import ApplicationCommunicator
+from channels.testing.application import ApplicationCommunicator
 
 
 class WebsocketCommunicator(ApplicationCommunicator):

docs/topics/testing.rst

@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ you might need to fall back to it if you are testing things like HTTP chunked
 responses or long-polling, which aren't supported in ``HttpCommunicator`` yet.
 
 .. note::
-    ``ApplicationCommunicator`` is actually provided by the base ``asgiref``
-    package, but we let you import it from ``channels.testing`` for convenience.
+    ``ApplicationCommunicator`` extends the class provided by the base ``asgiref``
+    package. Channels adds support for running unit tests with async consumers.
 
 To construct it, pass it an application and a scope:
 

tests/conftest.py

@@ -4,7 +4,14 @@
 
 def pytest_configure():
     settings.configure(
-        DATABASES={"default": {"ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3"}},
+        DATABASES={
+            "default": {
+                "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.sqlite3",
+                # Override Django’s default behaviour of using an in-memory database
+                # in tests for SQLite, since that avoids connection.close() working.
+                "TEST": {"NAME": "test_db.sqlite3"},
+            }
+        },
         INSTALLED_APPS=[
             "django.contrib.auth",
             "django.contrib.contenttypes",

tests/test_database.py

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+from django import db
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+from channels.db import database_sync_to_async
+from channels.generic.http import AsyncHttpConsumer
+from channels.generic.websocket import AsyncWebsocketConsumer
+from channels.testing import HttpCommunicator, WebsocketCommunicator
+
+
+@database_sync_to_async
+def basic_query():
+    with db.connections["default"].cursor() as cursor:
+        cursor.execute("SELECT 1234")
+        return cursor.fetchone()[0]
+
+
+class WebsocketConsumer(AsyncWebsocketConsumer):
+    async def connect(self):
+        await basic_query()
+        await self.accept("fun")
+
+
+class HttpConsumer(AsyncHttpConsumer):
+    async def handle(self, body):
+        await basic_query()
+        await self.send_response(
+            200,
+            b"",
+            headers={b"Content-Type": b"text/plain"},
+        )
+
+
+class ConnectionClosingTests(TestCase):
+    async def test_websocket(self):
+        self.assertNotRegex(
+            db.connections["default"].settings_dict.get("NAME"),
+            "memorydb",
+            "This bug only occurs when the database is materialized on disk",
+        )
+        communicator = WebsocketCommunicator(WebsocketConsumer.as_asgi(), "/")
+        connected, subprotocol = await communicator.connect()
+        self.assertTrue(connected)
+        self.assertEqual(subprotocol, "fun")
+
+    async def test_http(self):
+        self.assertNotRegex(
+            db.connections["default"].settings_dict.get("NAME"),
+            "memorydb",
+            "This bug only occurs when the database is materialized on disk",
+        )
+        communicator = HttpCommunicator(
+            HttpConsumer.as_asgi(), method="GET", path="/test/"
+        )
+        connected = await communicator.get_response()
+        self.assertTrue(connected)