Test api with auth-key and user

django_test_api.py

# Every request to api requires an auth-key in header in this example. 
# Example of how to perform api testing with such authentication.
# django 1.7

from django.apps import apps
from django.conf import settings
from django.test.client import RequestFactory

from api.user.views import UserKeyView

class APIReportsTestCase(TestCase):

    client_class = TestClient

    def setUp(self):

        # Create user
        self.user = apps.get_model(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL).objects.create_superuser(
            '[email protected]', '[email protected]', 'super_password')
        self.user.is_active = True
        self.user.save()

        content = {'email': '[email protected]', 'password': 'super_password'}
        request = RequestFactory().post('/gui/auth/', data=content)
        view = UserKeyView.as_view()
        response = view(request)
        key = json.loads(response.content).get('key')
        
        # Save key to use it in future requests
        self.extra = {
            'Auth-Key': key,
        }

    def test_finance_periods_report(self):
        # try to get supported periods for finance reports
        from api.report.finance.stats.views import FinancePeriodsListView
        # pass saved key to get request
        request = RequestFactory().get(reverse('api_report:finance-stats-periods'), **self.extra)
        # mannually pass user to request, otherwise there is a chance to get "AttributeError: 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'user'",
        # because during tests there is no auto user assignment
        request.user = self.user
        view = FinancePeriodsListView.as_view()
        response = view(request)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
        
    def test_finance_report_get_stats(self):
        # test finance 'get' statistics report
        # example of api testing for request with arguments
        from api.report.finance.stats.views import FinanceStatsView
        request = RequestFactory().get(reverse('api_report:finance-stats', kwargs=dict(period='month')), **self.extra)
        request.user = self.user
        view = FinanceStatsView.as_view()
        response = view(request, period='month')
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

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