session - Django: test failing on a view with @login_required

Question

I'm trying to build a test for a view that's decorated with @login_required, since I failed to make it work, I did a simple test and still can't make it pass.

Here is the code for the simple test and the view:

def test_login(self):
    user = self._create_new_user()
    self.assertTrue(user.is_active)
    login = self.client.login(username=user.username,
password=self.data['password1'])
    self.failUnless(login, 'Could not log in')
    response = self.client.get('/accounts/testlogin/')
    self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

@login_required
def testlogin(request):
    print 'testlogin !! '
    return HttpResponse('OK')

_create_new_user() is saving the user and there is a test inside that method to see that is working.

The test fails in the response.status_code, returning 302 and the response instance is of a HttpResponseRedirect, is redirecting it as if not logged in.

Any clue? I'm missing something?

Regards Esteban

Answer 1

This testcase works for me:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.test.client import Client
import unittest

class LoginTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.client = Client()
        self.user = User.objects.create_user('john', '[email protected]', 'johnpassword')

    def testLogin(self):
        self.client.login(username='john', password='johnpassword')
        response = self.client.get(reverse('testlogin-view'))
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

I suggest you (if you don't use them already) to use the reverse() function and name your URLs. This way you are sure that you get always the right URL.