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

Can you check like below,

from django.test import TransactionTestCase, Client

class UserHistoryTest(TransactionTestCase):
    self.user = User.objects.create(username='admin', password='pass@123', email='admin@admin.com')
    self.client = Client() # May be you have missed this line

    def test_history(self):
        self.client.login(username=self.user.username, password='pass@123')
        # get_history function having login_required decorator
        response = self.client.post(reverse('get_history'), {'user_id': self.user.id})
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

This test case worked for me.