Django tests and token timeout

[Birger Schacht]

hi,

i'm using my own PasswordResetTokenGenerator which has a timeout that is
not given in days but hours, to make the password token timeout more
fine grained. Is there a way to test such a timeout in Django tests,
i.e. something that lets the unit test use a fake time in the future?

cheers,
Birger

[Adam Stein]

Whenever I need to set the date or datetime to something specific for unit tests, I use Forbidden Fruit (https://github.com/clarete/forbiddenfruit).

-- 
Adam (ad...@csh.rit.edu)

[Kasper Laudrup]

Hi Birger,

You can mock out pretty much everything using the mock module in the
standard Python unittest library that Django already uses.

Depending on your code of course, but something like:

@mock.path('os.time.now')
def test_my_token(self, mock_now):
mock_now.return_value = datetime(3000, 12, 31)
# The rest of your test code goes here

Now your code should see the current time as being new years 3000.

I haven't tested this and there might be better ways to do that, but
that's how I would handle it. Hope that helps.

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

[Birger Schacht]

Hi!

thanks, that did the trick!

cheers,
Birger