I'm using pytest-django on a project and I wanted to write a test for a Django admin create form submission. Here's the pattern I came up with:
\nfrom .models import Location\nimport pytest\n\n\ndef test_admin_create_location_sets_public_id(client, admin_user):\n client.force_login(admin_user)\n assert Location.objects.count() == 0\n response = client.post(\n \"/admin/core/location/add/\",\n {\n \"name\": \"hello\",\n \"state\": \"13\",\n \"location_type\": \"1\",\n \"latitude\": \"0\",\n \"longitude\": \"0\",\n \"_save\": \"Save\",\n },\n )\n # 200 means the form is being re-displayed with errors\n assert response.status_code == 302\n location = Location.objects.order_by(\"-id\")[0]\n assert location.name == \"hello\"\n assert location.public_id == \"lc\"The trick here is to use the client and admin_user pytest-django fixtures (documented here) to get a configured test client and admin user object, then use client.force_login(admin_user) to obtain a session where that user is signed-in to the admin. Then write tests as normal.
Even better: use the admin_client fixture provided by pytest-django which is already signed into the admin:
def test_admin_create_location_sets_public_id(admin_client):\n response = admin_client.post(\n \"/admin/core/location/add/\",\n # ...Before finding out that this was included I implemented my own version of it:
\nimport pytest\n\n\n@pytest.fixture()\ndef admin_client(client, admin_user):\n client.force_login(admin_user)\n return client\n\n# Then write tests like this:\ndef test_admin_create_location_sets_public_id(admin_client):\n response = admin_client.post(\n \"/admin/core/location/add/\",\n # ...