Using Basic HTTP access authentication in Django testing framework

Question

For some of my Django views I\'ve created a decorator that performs Basic HTTP access authentication. However, while writing test cases in Django, it took me a while to wor

Answer 1

Another way to do it is to bypass the Django Client() and use Requests instead.

class MyTest(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        AUTH = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth("username", "password")

    def some_test(self):
        resp = requests.get(BASE_URL + 'endpoint/', auth=AUTH)
        self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, 200)