How to test a view that requires a user to be authenticated in Django?

Question

I have the following view that requires a user to be authenticated to access it, otherwise redirects to the login page:

In my urls.py file:

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("settings", login_required(views.Settings.as_view()), name="settings"),
]

In my views.py file:

class Settings(View):
    def get(self, request):
        return render(request, "project/settings.html")

How can I test this view?

Here is what I tried:

class TestViews(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.user = User.objects.create(
            username="testUser",
            password="testPassword",
        )

    def test_settings_authenticated(self):
        client = Client()
        client.login(username="testUser", password="testPassword")
        response = client.get("/settings")
        self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 200)
        self.assertTemplateUsed(response, "project/settings.html")

But this returns a 302 status, implying the user was not authenticated.

Answer 1

Instead of User.objects.create(...) use User.objects.create_user(...) since the create method will not automatically hash the password.

This solved my problem.