Users in initial data fixture

Question

I\'m creating a few users by default in my fixtures/initial_data.json so as to have some testing \"subjects.\" The problem I\'m experiencing is password generation.

Answer 1

I came across the same problem while writing fixtures for tests. Here's how I'm handling this in unit tests.

Creating data from admin and dumping them into fixture works but I don't quite like being dependent on manually doing it. So here's what I do -

Create the fixture just as you've done and then in the setUp method, set_passwords for the users.

user_fixture.json

[
    { "model": "auth.user",
        "pk": 1,
        "fields": {
            "username": "user1",
            "password": "password"
        }
    }
]

test_user.py

def setUp(self):
    self.User = get_user_model()

    # Fix the passwords of fixtures
    for user in self.User.objects.all():
        user.set_password(user.password)
        user.save()

This way I can cleanly write the passwords in fixture and refer back to them when I need to and create more fixtures simply by editing the fixture file.