Accessing the request.user object when testing Django

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I'm trying to access the request.user object when testing my app using django's client class.

from django.test import TestCase
from django.test.client import Client

class SomeTestCase(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.client = Client()
        self.client.login( username="foo", password="bar")

    def test_one(self):
        response = self.client.get("/my_profile/")
        self.fail( response.request.user )

This will obviously fail, but it fails because response.request doesn't have a user attribute.

AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'user'

Is there any way to access the user object from the client instance? I want to do this in order to check if some test user's data is properly rendered. I can try to tackle this by setting up all the necessary info during setUp, but before I do that I wanted to check if I'm not just missing something.

Best Answer

Use response.context['user'].

User is automatically available in the template context if you use RequestContext. See auth data in templates doc.

Otherwise i believe you should just query it:

 def test_one(self):
    response = self.client.get("/my_profile/")
    user = User.objects.get(username="foo")
    self.fail( user.some_field == False )

Example

For example, if we have the following two models (full model code below):

Car model uses OneToOneField(Engine)
Car2 model uses ForeignKey(Engine2, unique=True)

From within python manage.py shell execute the following:

`OneToOneField` Example

>>> from testapp.models import Car, Engine
>>> c = Car.objects.get(name='Audi')
>>> e = Engine.objects.get(name='Diesel')
>>> e.car
<Car: Audi>

`ForeignKey` with `unique=True` Example

>>> from testapp.models import Car2, Engine2
>>> c2 = Car2.objects.get(name='Mazda')
>>> e2 = Engine2.objects.get(name='Wankel')
>>> e2.car2_set.all()
[<Car2: Mazda>]

Model Code

from django.db import models

class Engine(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=25)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

class Car(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=25)
    engine = models.OneToOneField(Engine)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

class Engine2(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=25)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

class Car2(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=25)
    engine = models.ForeignKey(Engine2, unique=True, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name

Python – Django attribute error. ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘rindex’

You probably need to change

from mysite import hello

to something like

from mysite.hello_file import hello_view

And then use:

('^test/$',hello_view)

Because you need to pass a (view) function, not a file or module. As I think mgalgs was trying to explain, but I think a bit unclear for beginners.

Best Answer

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What’s the difference between django OneToOneField and ForeignKey

Example

OneToOneField Example

ForeignKey with unique=True Example

Model Code

Python – Django attribute error. ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘rindex’

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`OneToOneField` Example

`ForeignKey` with `unique=True` Example