#20916: Provide a "simple_login" feature for the test client
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Reporter: mjtamlyn | Owner: alasdair
Type: New feature | Status: assigned
Component: Testing framework | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: auth | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by alasdair):
I had a go at this ticket at the Djangoweekend sprints. You can see my
work so far in my branch on github:
https://github.com/alasdairnicol/django/compare/ticket_20916. I'd welcome
any comments, either here or on github.
As mjtamlyn says, authentication credentials are passed to the
authenticate method, which makes it tricky to add the desired
functionality to the existing `login` method. We could change the function
signature to
{{{
def login(*args, **kwargs):
if args:
user = args[0]
else:
# use credentials
credentials = **kwargs
}}}
but it feels hacky, so I decided to try implementing a new method
`simple_login`.
I found that we have to specify ``user.backend``, even though the
authentication backend is not used to log the user in. I have documented
that `backend` must be in `AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS` (if not,
`simple_login` currently returns True, but any requests to a login
protected view will be redirected to the login page). Perhaps I should
raise a `ValueError` if the backend is not in `AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS`.
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