[Django]-Django test model with fake user

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Well a User is actually just another Django model (of course it has some extra bindings in Django which makes it a “popular” and “special” model, but it has the same interface, and you can construct instances like with other models). So you can import that model, and create a User.

For example:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

my_user = User.objects.create(username='Testuser')

Typically in tests, one however uses a factory (for example with the Factory Boy) to make it easy to construct objects with some data. For example:

import factory
from factory.django import DjangoModelFactory

class UserFactory(DjangoModelFactory):

    username = factory.Sequence('testuser{}'.format)
    email = factory.Sequence('testuser{}@company.com'.format)

    class Meta:
        model = User

You can then create a user with:

my_user2 = UserFactory()
my_user3 = UserFactory(username='alice')
my_user4 = UserFactory(username='bob', email='bob@work.com')
👤willeM_ Van Onsem

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