Test project to verify that django.test.client populates request.user

.gitignore

*.pyc

__init__.py

__init__.py

default.html

{% autoescape off %}{{ request_class }}().user.username == {{ username }}{% endautoescape %}

manage.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from django.core.management import execute_manager
try:
    import settings # Assumed to be in the same directory.
except ImportError:
    import sys
    sys.stderr.write("Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py' in the directory containing %r. It appears you've customized things.\nYou'll have to run django-admin.py, passing it your settings module.\n(If the file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an ImportError somehow.)\n" % __file__)
    sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    execute_manager(settings)

models.py

settings.py

ROOT_URLCONF = 'urls'
DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'testapp',
)
TEMPLATE_DIRS = 'templates',

tests.py

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

class RequestUserTest(TestCase):

    def test_r(self):
        response = self.client.get('/')
        self.assertEqual(response.content, "WSGIRequest().user.username == ''")
        User.objects.create_user(username='testuser',
                                 password='password',
                                 email='akaihol+test@ambitone.com')
        result = self.client.login(username='testuser', password='password')
        self.assertEqual(result, True)
        response = self.client.get('/')
        self.assertEqual(response.content,
                         "WSGIRequest().user.username == u'testuser'")

urls.py

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.template import RequestContext
from django.template.loader import render_to_string

class View(HttpResponse):
    """
    >>> class request:
    ...     method = 'GET'
    >>> print unicode(View(request, _render=False)).strip()
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

    >>> class MyView(View):
    ...     def GET(self, request):
    ...         return HttpResponseRedirect('/elsewhere/')
    >>> print unicode(MyView(request, _render=False)).strip()
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    Location: /elsewhere/
    """
    template_name = 'default.html'
    _http_methods = (
        'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'OPTIONS', 'TRACE', 'CONNECT')

    def __init__(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        render = kwargs.pop('_render', True)
        try:
            handler = getattr(self, request.method)
        except AttributeError:
            result = HttpResponseNotAllowed(
                [method for method in self._http_methods
                 if hasattr(self, method)])
        else:
            result = handler(request, *args, **kwargs)
        if isinstance(result, HttpResponse):
            self.__class__ = result.__class__
            self.__dict__ = result.__dict__
        else:
            self.context = result
            if render:
                content = self.render(request, *args, **kwargs)
            else:
                content = ''
            super(View, self).__init__(content)

    def render(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return render_to_string(self.template_name,
                                self.context,
                                RequestContext(request))

    def set_response(self, cls, *args):
        self.__class__ = cls
        self.__init__(*args)


class TestView(View):
    def GET(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return dict(request_class=request.__class__.__name__,
                    username=repr(request.user.username))

urlpatterns = patterns(
    '',

    url(r'^$', TestView),
)