Re: TestCase Client.login() fails

On 28-03-12 08:05, jondbaker wrote:

> def test_login(self):
> user = User.objects.create_user('test', 'test@test.com', 't3stp@s$')
> response = self.client.login(username=user.username, password=user.password)
> self.assertTrue(response)
>
> After creating the user, I can verify that user.is_active is in fact
> True, but unfortunately response returns False. Both
> 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware' and
> 'django.contrib.auth' are declared in settings.py.
>
> Any thoughts?

Yes: You have to call user.save() after creating it. Otherwise the user
object exists, but it isn't saved to the database yet. And
"self.client.login()" queries the database, not user objects local to
the test.

Creating model objects in tests and testing them afterwards is something
that needs a bit of care. I've made several mistakes with them already
:-) Look at [1] for an example error.

Reinout

[1]:
http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2011/11/18/django_unicodedecodeerror.html

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