DRF testing client on redirectview -

[LiorA1]

Hi,
I trying to test a Django redirectview, using the DRF APIClient and encounter a weird behavior:

I'm doing 'assertRedirects' on the external url with 'fetch_redirect_response=False', which returns the expected-ish response (because it cant access external urls).

but when Im trying to access the same external (redirect) url again, it return as a response my own index page content.

can someone add some clarity to this?

code snippet:

def setUp(self) -> None:
        self.client = APIClient()

        return super().setUp()

    def test_redirect_url(self):
        """
        Test the correct redirect process, using a valid short path.
        """
        response_of_post = self.client.post(self.create_url, self.i_valid_data, format="json")
        first_obj_short_path = UrlMapper2.objects.first().short_path
        redirect_url = reverse("urlshorten:url_redirect2", args={first_obj_short_path})
        response_of_get = self.client.get(redirect_url)
        self.assertRedirects(response_of_get, response_of_get.url, 301, 301, fetch_redirect_response=False)

        print("***2", response_of_get.url)  #  https://www.django-rest-framework.org/
        response_of_get = self.client.get(response_of_get.url)
        print("***", response_of_get) # return my index page content.... <--- weird!
        print("***", response_of_get.content) # return my index page content.... <--- weird!
        # self.assertRedirects(response_of_get, response_of_get.url, 301, 200, fetch_redirect_response=False)
        # self.assertEquals(self.valid_mapper_url, response_of_get.url)

Thanks!