From deac58ed822c6cd819e916e6c3d1736c7adfa31e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 93578237 <43147888+93578237@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:06:50 -0500
Subject: [6.0.x] Fixed #36903 -- Fixed further NameErrors when inspecting
 functions with deferred annotations.

Provide a wrapper for safe introspection of user functions on Python 3.14+.

Follow-up to 601914722956cc41f1f2c53972d669ddee6ffc04.
Backport of 56ed37e17e5b1a509aa68a0c797dcff34fcc1366 from main.
---
 tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py')

diff --git a/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py b/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py
index 0ba169249b..3ea6ff6a69 100644
--- a/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py
+++ b/tests/auth_tests/test_auth_backends.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import sys
+import unittest
 from datetime import date
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 from unittest import mock
 from unittest.mock import patch
 
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ from django.test import (
     override_settings,
 )
 from django.urls import reverse
+from django.utils.version import PY314
 from django.views.debug import ExceptionReporter, technical_500_response
 from django.views.decorators.debug import sensitive_variables
 
@@ -41,6 +44,10 @@ from .models import (
     UUIDUser,
 )
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    type AnnotatedUsername = str
+    type AnnotatedPassword = str
+
 
 class FilteredExceptionReporter(ExceptionReporter):
     def get_traceback_frames(self):
@@ -1285,6 +1292,29 @@ class AuthenticateTests(TestCase):
     def test_skips_backends_with_decorated_method(self):
         self.assertEqual(authenticate(username="test", password="test"), self.user1)
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(PY314, "Deferred annotations are Python 3.14+ only")
+    @override_settings(
+        AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS=[
+            "auth_tests.test_auth_backends.AnnotatedBackend",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_backend_uses_deferred_annotations(self):
+        class AnnotatedBackend:
+            invariant_user = self.user1
+
+            def authenticate(
+                self,
+                request: HttpRequest,
+                username: AnnotatedUsername,
+                password: AnnotatedPassword,
+            ) -> User | None:
+                return self.invariant_user
+
+        with unittest.mock.patch(
+            "django.contrib.auth.import_string", return_value=AnnotatedBackend
+        ):
+            self.assertEqual(authenticate(username="test", password="test"), self.user1)
+
 
 class ImproperlyConfiguredUserModelTest(TestCase):
     """
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