Can't Test Password Change In Django Unittest

I'm trying to write an integration test for a Django application to test if the password was changed from a rest API. However, after calling the password change API, testing for th

Solution 1:

I was using dev server to run unittests. When I changed my password, I was actually posting to the dev server instead of the test one.

Here is my new unittest

import json

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.test import Client
from django.test import TestCase

from adaptors.redis_class import DjangoRedis


class PasswordChange(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        User.objects.create_user(username='john', email='john@john.com', password='john')
        r = DjangoRedis()
        r.set("email:john@john.com", '0' * 40, ex=3600)
        r.set('0' * 40, "email:john@john.com", ex=3600)

    def test_change_password(self):
        c = Client()
        payload = {'payload': json.dumps({'password': 'johnjohn'})}

        url = '/reset/' + '0' * 40 + '/'
        res = c.post(url, payload)
        res = res.json()
        self.assertEqual(res['password_changed'], True)
        u = User.objects.get(username='john')
        self.assertEqual(u.check_password('johnjohn'), True)

If you're going to use selenium IDE, make sure you inherent from StaticLiveServerTestCase instead of unittest. Follow this example. Also, don't forget to change this variable self.base_url to self.live_server_url

This inside my setUp method

self.base_url = self.live_server_url

Thanks to fips, koterpillar for helping me on the IRC channel, and aks for commenting under me.

Solution 2:

You are not making an http post as your view expects.

Here is how to make a post using urllib2: Making a POST call instead of GET using urllib2

But, since you already use requests module why not simply do:

url = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/reset/' + '0' * 40 + '/'
payload = {'csrfmiddlewaretoken': csrf_token, 'payload': json.dumps({'password': 'johnjohn'})}
headers = {'Cookie': 'csrftoken=' + csrf_token}
r = requests.post(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
json_res = json.loads(r.content)

And maybe try debugging/printing the value of json_res to check if there's anything else unexpected.

Also note, this is an integration test as you are testing through http, so your urls.py, views.py and even settings.py are being tested as part of it.