Google App Engine set up a user when using testbed

Question

I\'m using the GAE testbed service and when I run users.get_current_user() I get None i.e.

>>> import sys
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Answer 1

After some experimentation the following worked for me:

>>> os.environ['USER_EMAIL'] = 'a@b.c'
>>> os.environ['USER_ID'] = '123'
>>> users.get_current_user()
users.User(email='a@b.c',_user_id='123')

I hope this is a good solution, and this answer helps the next person to run into this issue.

EDIT: Related variables

To avoid /google/appengine/api/users.py:115 - AssertionError: assert _auth_domain

>>> os.environ['AUTH_DOMAIN'] = 'testbed'

Per Elliot de Vries comment, for an administrative user:

>>> os.environ['USER_IS_ADMIN'] = '1'

Answer 2

To simulate a sign in of an admin user, you can call anywhere in your test function:

self.testbed.setup_env(
    USER_EMAIL = 'test@example.com',
    USER_ID = '123',
    USER_IS_ADMIN = '1',
    overwrite = True)

Note that you need to use the overwrite=True parameter!