Django Unit Test Templatetags: how to circumvent the WSGIRequest has no attribute 'request' Problem

tests.py

class CustomTagTestCase(BaseTestCase):
    """_summary_: includes tests of custom templatetags from templatetags/custom_tags.py

    Args:
        BaseTestCase (_type_): _description_
    """

    def test_count_session_time(self):
        """_summary_: test clean_text

        Args:
            self (_type_): _description_
        """

        request = RequestFactory().get('/')
        client = Client()
        client.force_login(user=self.user)

        middleware = SessionMiddleware(client.get)
        middleware.process_request(request)

        request.session.save()

        request.user = self.user

        context = RequestContext(request)
        time = count_session_time(context)
        self.assertEqual(time, '60')