[Django]-Django testing: RequestFactory() follow redirect

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To authenticate the default Django client, you can use the force_login method on your client:

user = create_guest_user()
self.client.force_login(user)

If your site uses Django’s authentication system, you can use the force_login() method to simulate the effect of a user logging into the site. Use this method instead of login() when a test requires a user be logged in and the details of how a user logged in aren’t important.

To follow the redirection (or not) using the test client, you must use the follow argument, as described here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/testing/tools/#django.test.Client.get

self.client.get(url, follow=True)

If you set follow to True the client will follow any redirects and a redirect_chain attribute will be set in the response object containing tuples of the intermediate urls and status codes.

So your full code should look like this:

from django.test import TestCase

class MyTestCase(TestCase):
    def test_mytest(self):
        user = create_guest_user()
        self.client.force_login(user)
        response = self.client.get(reverse('my_view'), follow=True)
        # Do your assertions on the response here
👤Clément Denoix

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