Okay, it seems I'm in the minority with my preference for login_user(). I've committed the patch with force_login(). Thanks for the feedback.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 4:34:11 PM UTC-4, Berker Peksag wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Tim Graham <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > There's a proposal [1] to add a new method to the test client that works > > like login(), but skips the authentication (no credentials need to be > > provided) and verification (is_active=False can login) steps. The > signature > > is (user, backend=None). What would you name this method? > > > > Proposals so far: > > * force_login() (since this method bypasses authentication and other > checks > > login() has) > > +1 for force_login() > > --Berker > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/64c9e2b2-5934-45d0-9723-3e8b4c8ba7e6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
