I'm writing a simple (for now) Django app. I'm having trouble with authentication: I'm trying to use all of the out-of-the-box components, and both in the app itself and in tests, I can't authenticate users. So, for example, here's a test that fails:
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.test import TestCase
[...]
class UserTestCase(TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.testu = User(username="thename", password="thepassword", first_name="thefirstname")
self.testu.save()
def testAuthenticate(self):
u = authenticate(username="thename", password="thepassword")
self.assertEqual(u.first_name, "thefirstname")
I get an AttributeError:
'NoneType' object has no attribute "first_name".
I think this is because authenticate() is returning None (representing that there is no such user).
This fails whether or not I include the line "self.testu.save()".
I have other tests that pass, so I don't think the problem is with the test infrastructure. I can successfully create users and retrieve their information from the database.
The only mention of User in models.py is:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
I've read through a lot of documentation but can't figure out what's going on. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
You can not create a User object with a password like that. The password needs to be hashed. Therefore, you should use the .set_password(..) method [Django-doc]:
class UserTestCase(TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.testu = User(username="thename", first_name="thefirstname")
self.testu.set_password("thepassword")
self.testu.save()
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