Django test with allauth

Question

I want to test a django app with allauth with the scenario "that for unauthenticated users, they are redirected to the login page, which lists several social network options".

Therefore, the environment requires some social-app to be set up. So I did:

def set_up_allauth():
    site = Site.objects.create(name="localhost", domain="localhost")
    fb = SocialApp.objects.create(
        provider="facebook",
        name="Facebook",
        client_id="<id>",
        secret="<secret>",
    )
    fb.sites.add(site)
    fb.save()

class CollectionPageTest(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        set_up_allauth()

    def test_collection_visitor(self):
        # import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
        response = self.client.get(reverse("collection"))
        self.assertRedirects(
            response, reverse("account_login"), status_code=302
        )

If I put a import pdb; pdb.set_trace() at the above indicated position, I can see that SocialApp.objects.all() contains the created Facebook app, but in the end of the test, I always get failure:

ImproperlyConfigured: No Facebook app configured: please add a SocialApp using the Django admin

I wonder what is happening here and how to solve it? (I am guessing this is because the .sites is not hooked up to the current testing environment?)

---

The part of settings.py that concerns allauth

# ==============
# Django-allauth
# ==============
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    # Needed to login by username in Django admin, regardless of `allauth`
    "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend",
    # `allauth` specific authentication methods, such as login by e-mail
    "allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend",
)

ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REQUIRED = True
# ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION = "mandatory"
# ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_AUTHENTICATED_REDIRECT_URL = "/app/"
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_AUTHENTICATED_REDIRECT_URL = ""

# The id of the working URL in the Sites table
# Currently the URL is http://localhost:8000/
SITE_ID = 1

SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = {
    'facebook': {
        'SCOPE': ['email', 'user_photos', "publish_actions"],
        'AUTH_PARAMS': {'auth_type': 'reauthenticate'},
        'METHOD': 'oauth2',
        'LOCALE_FUNC': lambda request: 'en_US',
        'VERIFIED_EMAIL': False,
        'VERSION': 'v2.2'
    },
    'instagram': {
        'AUTH_PARAMS': {'auth_type': 'reauthenticate'},
        'METHOD': 'oauth2',
        'LOCALE_FUNC': lambda request: 'en_US',
        'VERIFIED_EMAIL': False,
    }
}

# The email backend for allauth
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    # Required by allauth template tags
    "django.core.context_processors.request",
    # allauth specific context processors
    "allauth.account.context_processors.account",
    "allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount",
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
    'postman.context_processors.inbox',     # Django-postman
)

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = "/user/dashboard/"
ROOT_URL = ''

Answer 1

So the fixtures weren't working for me. I don't like fixtures anyway, so I came up with an alternate solution:

SetupTestData.py

from django.test import TestCase
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site

class TestData(TestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpTestData(cls):

        cls.current_site = Site.objects.get_current()

        cls.SocialApp1 = cls.current_site.socialapp_set.create(
            provider="facebook",
            name="facebook",
            client_id="1234567890",
            secret="0987654321",
        )

        cls.SocialApp2 = cls.current_site.socialapp_set.create(
            provider="instagram",
            name="instagram",
            client_id="1234567890",
            secret="0987654321",
        )

test_collection_page.py

from TestPath.tests.SetupTestData import TestData

class CollectionPageTest(TestData):
    def test_collection_visitor(self):
        # import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
        response = self.client.get(reverse("collection"))
        self.assertRedirects(
            response, reverse("account_login"), status_code=302
        )

Simply subclass the same TestData whenever you need these to be active.