I need a view that allows staff users to view objects in a draft state. But I'm finding it difficult to write a unittest for this view.
I'm using Factory Boy for my setup:
class UserFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory):
class Meta:
model = User
username = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda t: random_string())
password = factory.PostGenerationMethodCall('set_password', 'mysecret')
email = fuzzy.FuzzyText(
length=12, suffix='@email.com').fuzz().lower()
is_staff = True
is_active = True
class ReleaseFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory):
class Meta:
model = Release
headline = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda t: random_string())
slug = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda t: slugify(t.headline))
author = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda t: random_string())
excerpt = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda t: random_string())
body = factory.LazyAttribute(lambda t: random_string())
class TestReleaseViews(TestCase):
"""
Ensure our view returns a list of :model:`news.Release` objects.
"""
def setUp(self):
self.client = Client()
self.user = UserFactory.create()
self.client.login(username=self.user.username, password=self.user.password)
Given that I now have a logged-in, staff user for my tests, how do I go about using that to test against for a view (status_code 200 instead of 404)?
For instance, this test fails (404 != 200) when my view allows for users with is_staff
as True to access the view:
def test_staff_can_view_draft_releases(self):
"ReleaseDetail view should return correct status code"
release = ReleaseFactory.create(status='draft')
response = self.client.get(
reverse(
'news:release_detail',
kwargs={
'year': release.created.strftime('%Y'),
'month': release.created.strftime('%b').lower(),
'day': release.created.strftime('%d'),
'slug': release.slug
}
)
)
self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
Actually, you receive a 404
error because the self.client.login
call fails.
When you're passing password=self.user.password
, you're sending the hash of the password, not the password itself.
When you call UserFactory()
, the steps taken by factory_boy in your factory are:
{'username': "<random>", 'is_active': True, 'is_staff': True, 'email': "<fuzzed>@email.com"}
save()
ituser.set_password('my_secret')
user.save()
againBy then, user.password
is the result of set_password('my_secret')
, not 'my_secret'
.
I'd go for (in your test):
pwd = 'my_super_secret'
self.user = UserFactory(password=pwd)
self.client = Client()
self.assertTrue(self.client.login(username=self.user.username, password=pwd))
By the way, the declaration of your email field won't work as you expect it: when you write fuzzy.FuzzyText(...).fuzz().lower()
, this gets executed only once, when the UserFactory
class is declared.
You should instead use factory.fuzzy.FuzzyText(chars='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', length=12, suffix='@example.com')
.