#20916: Provide a "simple_login" feature for the test client
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Reporter: mjtamlyn | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Testing framework | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords: auth
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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At present `client.login()` takes the normal authentication parameters,
runs them through the authentication backends and then logs the user in. A
lot of my sites currently require the user to be logged in on every page.
Consequently, every unit test which uses the client to check a page
creates a user and then logs them in. When I create the user with a helper
factory, I have to be careful to record the raw password of that user so I
can pass it back through the hashing algorithms.
I'd like to provide `client.simple_login(user)`, which simply sets up the
test client's session so that the user in question is logged in, without
going through the hashing algorithms. This would include most of the
business logic from the current `login()` method, but without the
`authenticate()` check. This would be a minor performance improvement
which probably doesn't justify itself in most cases, the main benefit is
ease-of-use.
Related in a way to #15179
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