StaticLiveServerTestCase not logging even if Client().login works - django-testing

Question

I'm trying to use selenium with StaticLiveServerTestCase in order to run the django server in the tests automatically.
If I'm using Client().login which returns success, I still can't pass the login page (by default, if the user is logged in it redirects to the homepage).
After some debugging it turns out that request.user= AnonymousUser and User.objects.all()= QuerySet [User: USERNAME]
It means that the user was created successfully, but is not logged in for some reason.
Here is the code :
class SeleniumTestCase(StaticLiveServerTestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.initialize()
def tearDown(self):
self.selenium.quit()
def initialize(self):
self.create_test_user()
self.run_chrome()
self.login()
def run_chrome(self):
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
self.selenium = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
self.wait = WebDriverWait(self.selenium, 10)
#staticmethod
def create_test_user():
user = User.objects.create_superuser(
username=USERNAME,
email=EMAIL,
is_active=True,
password=PASSWORD)
user.save()
def login(self):
login_success = self.client.login(username=USERNAME, password=PASSWORD)
self.assertTrue(login_success)
self.selenium.get(self.live_server_url)
def test1(self):
self.assertTrue(True)
If I sign in via the gui in my website (selenium) - I can pass the login page. But with self.client.login I can't.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Answer 1

I was having this problem myself and initially thought it might be an anomaly of the clicks or something in the form. Notice though that in LiveServerTestCase.setUpClass(), there are extra threads created, so some actions become isolated and basically, some actions will seem to have no effect on Django's back-end database.
I needed to call setUpClass() to get my fixtures, but I didn't want this thread interference just yet.
The solution for me was to make my own call to load the fixtures, then proceed with the rest of super's setup:
class TestSalesUI(StaticLiveServerTestCase, TestCase):
hidden_fixtures = ["bevrly/fixtures/fish_dinners.json",
"wine/fixtures/wine_sizes.json"]
#classmethod
def setUpClass(cls):
for db_name in cls._databases_names(include_mirrors=False):
try:
call_command('loaddata', *cls.hidden_fixtures, **{
'verbosity': 0,
'commit': False,
'database': db_name,
})
except Exception:
cls._rollback_atomics(cls.cls_atomics)
raise
User = get_user_model()
cls.carpenter = User.objects.get(username="carpenter")
# Password needs to be set now rather than in a fixture, for new hashing.
cls.carpenter.set_password(CARPENTER_PASSWORD)
cls.carpenter.save()
super(TestSalesUI, cls).setUpClass() # New threads now
cls.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
cls.driver.implicitly_wait(10) # ⏳☕🖵