Information about proper way of user creation for testing

[Filip Gruszczyński]

I have created user using User.objects.create and then tried Client().login and it constantly fails. The proper way was to user User.objects.create_user, but there was not a word in testing docs! There should be such information. Here is the link: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/#django.test.client.Client.login

[Ramiro Morales]

Replying to gruszczy:

I have created user using User.objects.create and then tried Client().login and it constantly fails. The proper way was to user User.objects.create_user, but there was not a word in testing docs! There should be such information. Here is the link: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/#django.test.client.Client.login

Are you sure you are correctly using create()? ​This test shows an user can be created without having to resort to use create_user() and the ​documentation says it is "The most basic way" not that it is the proper or exclusive way to add an user.

[Tim Graham]

+1. I had this problem recently as well. I think the issue is that using create() doesn't hash the password. I had to use set_password() until I discovered create_user().

[Filip Gruszczyński]

I don't know, if it's useful, but I have written this additional line and I am uploading diff.

[Tim Graham]

slightly updated patch with links to methods

[Russell Keith-Magee]

(In [11248]) Fixed #10908 -- Clarified the procedure for creating test users in the testing docs. Thanks to gruszczy and timo.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

(In [11254]) [1.0.X] Fixed #10908 -- Clarified the procedure for creating test users in the testing docs. Thanks to gruszczy and timo.

Merge of r11248 from trunk.