Django's self.client.login(…) does not work in unit tests

Question

I have created users for my unit tests in two ways:

1) Create a fixture for \"auth.user\" that looks roughly like this:

    { 
        \"pk\": 1, 
         


        

Answer 1

An easier way is to use force_login, new in Django 1.9.

force_login(user, backend=None)

For example:

class LoginView(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.client.force_login(User.objects.get_or_create(username='testuser')[0])