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aurum/backend/tests
technosexual 20f41b444a fix: don't enforce write-time transfer rules when reading transactions (#7)
TransactionRead inherited TransactionBase's model_validator, so the rules a
new row must satisfy were also applied on the way out, to rows already in
the database. A row can stop satisfying them through no fault of its own:
transactions.transfer_account_id is ON DELETE SET NULL, so deleting an
account leaves every transfer that pointed at it without a destination.

The result was that deleting an account could 500 the entire transactions
list — permanently, and with the list gone there was no way in the UI to
find and delete the offending row.

The fields move to TransactionFields, which reading uses; TransactionBase
keeps the invariants for the write path. The frontend already tolerates a
missing destination (TransactionsTable renders the transfer suffix only when
transfer_account_id is set, and the edit modal makes you pick a destination
before saving), so such a row is now visible, editable and deletable
instead of fatal.
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Backend tests

Real integration tests against a real Postgres database — a dedicated aurum_test database created fresh, migrated, and dropped again on every run. They never touch the real aurum database or its data: the app's lifespan startup (which seeds against the real DB) is never triggered, and every route's DB dependency is overridden to point at aurum_test instead.

Running

The stack must already be up (docker compose up -d). Test dependencies aren't baked into the production image, so install them once per container lifetime, then run pytest inside the running backend container — it's the only place with network access to Postgres:

docker compose exec backend pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
docker compose exec backend pytest -v

Re-run just pytest -v for subsequent runs; the pip install only needs repeating after a container restart/rebuild.

Adding a test

  • Use the client fixture (an httpx.AsyncClient wired to the app) to hit the API the same way the frontend does — prefer this over reaching into services/models directly, so tests keep verifying the actual contract.
  • account_id and categories fixtures give you the same default account/categories a real fresh install seeds.
  • Every table is truncated and reseeded before each test (see conftest.py::_clean_database), so tests don't need to worry about leftover state or guess at IDs from a previous test.