django test cases can't get past the @login_required decorator on a view function

Question

I've scoured stackoverflow and tried several different solutions, but my test code always goes to the login redirect.

This is what I have:

class LoggedInSetup(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.client = Client()
        self.user = User.objects.create(username="lolwutboi", password="whatisthepassword")
        self.client.login(username='lolwutboi', password='whatisthepassword')

        number_of_submissions = 13
        for sub in range(number_of_submissions):
            Submission.objects.create(title='Amazing', description='This is the body of the post',
                                      author=str(self.user), pub_date=timezone.now())


class LoggedInTestCases(LoggedInSetup):

    def test_logged_in_post_reachable(self):
        self.client.login(username='lolwutboi', password='whatisthepassword')
        resp = self.client.get(reverse('submission_post'))
        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, 200)

Answer 1

You can't set the password like that - the password stored in the database is a hashed value and you are setting it to the password string itself. This means the validation will fail.

You would need to set the password like so:

self.user = User.objects.create(username="lolwutboi")
self.user.set_password("whatisthepassword")
self.user.save()

However, since all you really need is to log in the test user, use force_login in the test:

self.client.force_login(self.user)

Which will log in the user without you having to worry about passwords.