Fixed #21357 -- Fixed test client session initialization.

The test client will now create a session when it is first accessed
if no session already exists.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/test/client.py b/django/test/client.py
index 9513dcd809..1262e187cb 100644
--- a/django/test/client.py
+++ b/django/test/client.py
@@ -393,6 +393,11 @@ class Client(RequestFactory):
             cookie = self.cookies.get(settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME, None)
             if cookie:
                 return engine.SessionStore(cookie.value)
+            else:
+                s = engine.SessionStore()
+                s.save()
+                self.cookies[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME] = s.session_key
+                return s
         return {}
     session = property(_session)