django-social-auth: logging in from a unit test client - django

Question

I use django-social-auth as my authentication mechanism and I need to test my app with logged in users. I'm trying:
from django.test import Client
c = Client()
c.login(username='myfacebook#username.com", password='myfacebookpassword')
The user which is trying to login succeeds to login from a browser. The app is already allowed to access user's data.
Any ideas how to login from a unittest when using django-social-auth as the authentication mechanism?
Thanks

Answer 1

Create a fixture with User instances
{
"pk": 15,
"model": "auth.user",
"fields": {
"username": "user",
"first_name": "user",
"last_name": "userov",
"is_active": true,
"is_superuser": false,
"is_staff": false,
"last_login": "2012-07-20 15:37:03",
"groups": [],
"user_permissions": [],
"password": "!",
"email": "",
"date_joined": "2012-07-18 13:29:53"
}
}
Create a fixture with SocialAuthUser instances like this
{
"pk": 7,
"model": "social_auth.usersocialauth",
"fields": {
"uid": "1234567",
"extra_data": "%some account social data%",
"user": 15,
"provider": "linkedin"
}
}
So you will get the user, who has the same behavior as a real user and has all the social data you need.
Set the new password and then you can use the auth mechanism for log this user in:
...
user.set_password('password')
user.save()
logged_in = self.client.login(username='user', password='password')
and then just call the view with login required
self.client.get("some/url")
Don't forget, that django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend is needed, and django.contrib.sessions should be in your INTALLED_APPS tuple
Also, the advantage of using standard auth is that you don't need to make a server request for getting oauth tokens and so on.