Question

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.

Answer 1

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 )