Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

This RESTful API test suite extends the APITestCase class. Once again, we have the setUpClass() and tearDownClass() class methods that will be executed before and after the different tests. Also, the test suite has a client attribute of the APIClient type, which can be used to simulate API calls. The client provides methods for all standard HTTP calls: get(), post(), put(), patch(), delete(), head(), and options().

In our tests, we are using the GET, POST, and DELETE requests. Also, the client has methods to force the authentication of a user based on login credentials, a token, or a User object. In our tests, we are authenticating the third way: passing a user directly to the force_authenticate() method.

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