I wrote a custom authentication backend, I used it in my views to prove that it is working, however I would like to test it so in case it breaks in future for whatever reason, I would know. I think the problem may be because I have no request in the test, so no request is passed into the authenticate method. If this is the problem, then how can I pass a valid request into the authenticate method and test it so the test passes. In other words, can someone please show me a test that passes for the authentication backend below
backends.py
class EmailBackend(BaseBackend): def authenticate(self, request, email=None, password=None): try: user = User.objects.filter(email=email).first() if user.check_password(password): return user else: return None except User.DoesNotExist: return None def get_user(self, user_id): try: return User.objects.get(pk=user_id) except User.DoesNotExist: return None test_backends.py
class TestUserBackend(TestCase): def test_authenticate(self): user = UserFactory() authenticated_user = authenticate(email=user.email, password=user.password) self.assertEqual(authenticated_user, user) UserFactory() is from factory boy. I have also checked that user.password is hashed and the same as user.password which is also hashed. But I keep getting None != the user.email that was generated . Thanks for your help.
