Unit Test Django Client Login?

[meconlin]

How can I unit test authentication on my Django app using python-social-auth?

I attempted this:

    self.c = Client()
    self.u = User.objects.create(username="testuser", password="password", is_staff=True, is_active=True, is_superuser=True)
    self.u.save()
    self.auth = UserSocialAuth(user=self.u, provider="Facebook")
    self.auth.save()
    self.c.login(username=self.u.username, password=self.u.password) 

but this call to login returns False and the user is not authenticated

[omab]

I don't see any social login there, just a UserSocialAuth instance being saved that's not used at all.

The problem with testing social authentication is the dependency with the third-parties that provider that auth for you, that's slow, prone to error and any user looking to run the tests need to register an application and define keys/secret for the desired backends. That's why tests on PSA are written using HTTPPretty to mock the server responses and focus on functionality testing instead.

[meconlin]

Sorry if I was not clear omab, I was not trying to test oauth in any meaningful way. I was simply trying to get an authenticated django.test.Client so that I can unit test REST endpoints. My mistake was thinking that it mattered how that Client got authenticated, for unit testing the tasteypie endpoints oauth really doesnt need to come into play at all.

this worked for me:

        self.user = User.objects.create(username='testuser', password='12345', is_active=True, is_staff=True, is_superuser=True) 
        self.user.set_password('hello') 
        self.user.save() 
        self.user = authenticate(username='testuser', password='hello') 
        login = self.c.login(username='testuser', password='hello') 
        self.assertTrue(login)

[ChillarAnand]

Thank you @meconlin I had the same problem. Your script helped me a lot!

[rustoceans]

Thanks man!

[gonvaled]

@omab what if I really want to make sure that the integration of python social auth with my django project is working? I do not need to test that the social endpoints are working, but at least I would like to know that my site is doing right the request/reply cycle. How to go about this? Is there any example available?

[idchlife]

@gonvaled +1