AnonymousUser with django.test.client.login() - django

Question

I'm testing login function.
def setUpClass(cls):
super(BasePage_loggedin, cls).setUpClass()
cls.selenium = WebDriver()
cls.client = Client()
cls.user_1 = MyUser.objects.create_user(username='myself',password='12345')
cls.client.login(username=cls.user_1.username, password=cls.user_1.password)
# create session cookie:
session = SessionStore()
session[SESSION_KEY] = cls.user_1.pk
session[BACKEND_SESSION_KEY] = settings.AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS[0]
session[HASH_SESSION_KEY] = cls.user_1.get_session_auth_hash()
session.save()
# Finally, create the cookie dictionary
cookie = {
'name': settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME,
'value': session.session_key,
'secure': False,
'path': '/',
}
# add the session cookie
cls.selenium.get('{}'.format(cls.live_server_url))
cls.selenium.add_cookie(cookie)
cls.selenium.refresh()
cls.selenium.get('{}'.format(cls.live_server_url))
So I can pass the login page, but then, when I do request.user to check the data for this user, it's an AnonymousUser

Answer 1

When you're creating the user that way - I believe it has to do with the password. Setting the password to a string like that doesn't do what you think it would do.
You could create the user like that - then add this after the user creation but before the login:
cls.user_1.set_password('12345')
cls.user_1.save()
Then login the user with something like this:
cls.client.login(username=cls.user_1.username, password='12345')
I believe it has something to do with the hashing of the password or something along those lines - it's been a while since I stumbled around with it, but I remember having the exact same issue as you.
Something like this should work:
cls.selenium = WebDriver()
cls.client = Client()
cls.user_1 = MyUser.objects.create_user(username='myself',password='12345')
cls.user_1.set_password('12345')
cls.user_1.save()
cls.client.login(username=cls.user_1.username, password='12345')

Answer 2

Please check your settings.py and try below codes.
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (
'rest_framework.authentication.SessionAuthentication', # needed only up to the test env
'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication',
)
}