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Unit testing background queue flood prevention

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Unit testing background queue flood prevention

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- [Narrator] Our first test case, we'll test the celery task that was created. In the setup method we have to first clear the cache, and then in our first test, we're going to be asserting that the cache does not have any key set, specifically the key for this user ID. And then we're going to call our background task, with that user ID and the text. And then we're going to be checking that the comment was created. We make sure the text is equal to example, and we also make sure that the cache was set for this cache key and that the cache value was set to the comment ID. For our next task, we're going to be marking out the retry function of create comment, and we're going to be making sure that retrying and queuing up this background task for later can be done. We have the create comment retry lock here, and our user ID will be the first user's ID. And then we're going to call create comment with that user ID, just…

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