Commit 067e0424 authored by SusanTan's avatar SusanTan Committed by Tim Graham
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Fixed #20609 -- Documented how to use request.user with RequestFactory

Thanks michel@ for the suggestion.
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@@ -37,18 +37,25 @@ Example

The following is a simple unit test using the request factory::

    import unittest
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    from django.test import TestCase
    from django.test.client import RequestFactory

    class SimpleTest(unittest.TestCase):
    class SimpleTest(TestCase):
        def setUp(self):
            # Every test needs access to the request factory.
            self.factory = RequestFactory()
            self.user = User.objects.create_user(
                first_name='jacob', email='jacob@…', password='top_secret')

        def test_details(self):
            # Create an instance of a GET request.
            request = self.factory.get('/customer/details')

            # Recall that middleware are not suported. You can simulate a
            # logged-in user by setting request.user manually.
            request.user = self.user

            # Test my_view() as if it were deployed at /customer/details
            response = my_view(request)
            self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)