Test client session not set for unauthenticated requests

[Alexandru Plugaru]

In ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/testing/#django.test.client.Client.session it says that I can do something like this in my tests:

def test_something(self):
    session = self.client.session
    session['somekey'] = 'test'
    session.save()

However if the client is not logged-in, self.client.session returns a dict which will result in an AttributeError.

[Alexandru Plugaru]

I found a workaround for this bug. Just access a view that sets the session for you. For example:

self.client.get('/admin/')
session = self.client.session
session['some_var'] = 'value'
session.save()

...
do stuff

[Preston Timmons]

Thanks for the report. This issue is documented in #15740 and #10899, which has a patch to fix this. Closing this one as a duplicate.