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| author | Alexander Gaevsky <sasha@sasha0.ru> | 2016-02-05 21:03:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-03-23 09:01:52 -0400 |
| commit | 107165c4b04f4e5a830a60b6c66b2e5d8fb1d242 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fdb315783b985925bf73a1624d62e2df5f2aba7 /docs | |
| parent | e0a3d937309a82b8beea8f41b17d8b6298da2a86 (diff) | |
Fixed #24987 -- Allowed inactive users to login with the test client.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.10.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/testing/tools.txt | 13 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.10.txt b/docs/releases/1.10.txt index d6be8e2f09..ebce5b06e5 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.10.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.10.txt @@ -678,6 +678,10 @@ Miscellaneous :class:`~django.contrib.auth.backends.AllowAllUsersRemoteUserBackend` in :setting:`AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS` instead. +* In light of the previous change, the test client's + :meth:`~django.test.Client.login()` method no longer always rejects inactive + users but instead delegates this decision to the authentication backend. + .. _deprecated-features-1.10: Features deprecated in 1.10 diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt index 8cd847f066..bc0cf98199 100644 --- a/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt +++ b/docs/topics/testing/tools.txt @@ -334,13 +334,6 @@ Use the ``django.test.Client`` class to make requests. ``login()`` method to simulate the effect of a user logging into the site. - Inactive users (:attr:`is_active=False - <django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_active>`) are not permitted to - login as this method is meant to be equivalent to the - :func:`~django.contrib.auth.login` view which uses - :class:`~django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm` and therefore - defaults to rejecting users who are inactive. - After you call this method, the test client will have all the cookies and session data required to pass any login-based tests that may form part of a view. @@ -378,6 +371,12 @@ Use the ``django.test.Client`` class to make requests. :meth:`~django.contrib.auth.models.UserManager.create_user` helper method to create a new user with a correctly hashed password. + .. versionchanged:: 1.10 + + In previous versions, inactive users (:attr:`is_active=False + <django.contrib.auth.models.User.is_active>`) were not permitted + to login. + .. method:: Client.force_login(user, backend=None) .. versionadded:: 1.9 |