Re: Django tests and token timeout

Hi Birger,

On 2018-07-30 16:12, Birger Schacht wrote:
> i'm using my own PasswordResetTokenGenerator which has a timeout that is
> not given in days but hours, to make the password token timeout more
> fine grained. Is there a way to test such a timeout in Django tests,
> i.e. something that lets the unit test use a fake time in the future?
>

You can mock out pretty much everything using the mock module in the
standard Python unittest library that Django already uses.

Depending on your code of course, but something like:

@mock.path('os.time.now')
def test_my_token(self, mock_now):
mock_now.return_value = datetime(3000, 12, 31)
# The rest of your test code goes here

Now your code should see the current time as being new years 3000.

I haven't tested this and there might be better ways to do that, but
that's how I would handle it. Hope that helps.

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

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