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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By: Michael Dinder

Overview of this book

Django is a powerful framework but choosing the right add-ons that match the scale and scope of your enterprise projects can be tricky. This book will help you explore the multifarious options available for enterprise Django development. Countless organizations are already using Django and more migrating to it, unleashing the power of Python with many different packages and dependencies, including AI technologies. This practical guide will help you understand practices, blueprints, and design decisions to put Django to work the way you want it to. You’ll learn various ways in which data can be rendered onto a page and discover the power of Django for large-scale production applications. Starting with the basics of getting an enterprise project up and running, you'll get to grips with maintaining the project throughout its lifecycle while learning what the Django application lifecycle is. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy a Django project to the web and implement various components into the site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Starting a Project
5
Part 2 – Django Components
10
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components

Testing authenticated view requests

In this section, we will be building on the same request test cases that we just built to remove the AnonymousUser class and perform our own authentication, requiring only permitted users. We have a few view classes that we wrote in Chapter 8, Working with the Django REST Framework, that require user authentication. Let's create test scripts that allow us to authenticate with an actual user when performing an automated test. This is where loading the chapter_8/urls.py file when preparing for this chapter comes into play. Django provides a class called Client found in the django.test library that lets us perform user authentication when testing a view class.

In the following subsection, we will implement the Client class when performing authentication.

Using the Client() class

In this exercise, we will test the custom API endpoint written in Chapter 8, Working with the Django REST Framework, in the GetSellerHTMLView class. This is the...