Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#26986 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

`force_login` requires `user.is_active` in 1.10

Reported by: Guillermo O. Freschi Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 1.10
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

In 1.9, users didn't need to be active in order to be authenticated by force_login in tests.

In 1.10 it is necessary because it's done through login, which requires it.

It's either a regression or should be mentioned in the release notes (as per bmispelon from IRC).

Change History (8)

comment:1 by Baptiste Mispelon, 8 years ago

Component: Testing frameworkDocumentation
Has patch: set
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Type: BugCleanup/optimization

Mentioning force_login in the release note would be nice, if only for grepping.

There's a pull request at https://github.com/django/django/pull/7003.

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

I don't understand the report. Can you give example code to show the behavior change? The release note is referring to the removal of the user.is_active check in login(). As far as I see, force_login() isn't affected by that.

comment:3 by Guillermo O. Freschi, 8 years ago

I have a custom user model that is valid when its validation_date is set.

Simplified:

    class MyUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
        email = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)
        validation_date = models.DateTimeField(null=True)

        USERNAME_FIELD = 'email'

        @property
        def is_active(self):
            return self.validation_date is not None

I have a test on a view that requires login, like

    def test_user_must_be_logged_in(self):
        response = self.client.get("some.url")
        self.assertRedirects(response, "/login/?next=some.url")

        self.client.force_login(self.user)
        response = self.client.get("some.url")
        self.assertEqual(200, response.status_code)

This test worked in 1.9 but is broken in 1.10; the user is not logged in unless I assign a value to validation_date and save (i.e., unless the user's is_active returns True).

If you require a complete example, just ask :)

comment:4 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Easy pickings: unset

Okay, that makes sense but the current documentation proposal isn't technically correct since force_login() already did delegate the decision to the authentication backend. The issue is rather that the default authentication backend now rejects inactive users.

Maybe you can propose some other clarification or we can close this ticket as a misunderstanding?

comment:5 by Guillermo O. Freschi, 8 years ago

I see, that makes sense; this

* The new :class:`~django.contrib.auth.backends.AllowAllUsersModelBackend` and
  :class:`~django.contrib.auth.backends.AllowAllUsersRemoteUserBackend` ignore
  the value of ``User.is_active``, while
  :class:`~django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend` and
  :class:`~django.contrib.auth.backends.RemoteUserBackend` now reject inactive
  users.

would be the relevant item in the changelog.

My issue in particular is the disconnect (when grepping/visually scanning the changelog) between the symptom (force_login "stopped working") and the cause (the backend's behavior changed).

Would an item mentioning something like "test cases using force_login() uses may need to be updated to use an active user" make sense?

Last edited 8 years ago by Guillermo O. Freschi (previous) (diff)

comment:6 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Yes, that seems okay.

comment:7 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In 3c20aa49:

Fixed #26986 -- Documented force_login() delegation to auth backends.

comment:8 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 8 years ago

In bcdf6c19:

[1.10.x] Fixed #26986 -- Documented force_login() delegation to auth backends.

Backport of 3c20aa49d746471ea55e106796cc1d349a5769b8 from master

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