Well I have spent allot of time trying to figure out my next problem
here before I further expose the depths of my ignorance here...

I tried passing in AUTH_USER as a string user name and it naturally
works for authentication; as did passing in
repoze.what.credentials:<my user object>.

The problem I have is that my User model has a ManyToOne relationship
to a Company model.  In my controller I use the environ.
[AUTH_USER].company on another object (say,
template.owner=user.company).

Passing AUTH_USER as a string naturally gives me "string has no
attribute 'company;".  When I pass the User object in for
repoze.what.credentials I get 'NoneType' object has no attribute
'company'.

My TestModel class in base has the company attribute of the user set
in setUp, so I don't get it...

My thanks in advance for you nurturing me along here.

On Aug 12, 6:29 pm, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Richard Harding <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, waugust <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> This is most likely a very trivial question, but believe me I did my
> >> due diligence and googled but alas I can't find the answer.
>
> >> All I'm trying to do is write tests for my controllers but I fail to
> >> see how to set an AUTH_USER environ variable.
>
> >> I thought to just instantiate my User model and pass it in the headers
> >> attribute of self.app.post though i get "AssertionError: Environmental
> >> variable HTTP_AUTH_USER is not a string:"
>
> >> What am I missing here? How do I mimic a logged in user when testing
> >> my controllers?
>
> The others have explained the Repoze configuration better than I can,
> but I'll just point out that AUTH_USER has to be a string because it
> was defined in the early 1990s before the rise of OO scripting
> languages, so if you want interoperability with other software, it has
> to be a string.
>
> --
> Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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