Lesson 20 - User Accounts

LEARN

Today

• Customize the basic user auth system
• User Accounts (Add, List, Detail, Edit, Delete)
• Encapsulate to reuse
• Add tests

Last Lesson

• User data model
• Basic Auth Views
  • Login
  • Logout
  • Signup
  • User info

Writing Tests

• Important for code reuse
• Use a standard pattern for tests
• First test gets the greatest return

Data Tests

• List, Detail, Create, Edit, Delete
• String representation
• Consistent naming

Example: BookDataTests

class BookDataTests(TestCase):

    def test_book_list()
    def test_book_detail()
    def test_book_add()
    def test_book_edit()
    def test_book_delete()

Data Test Features

• Create data records
• List data records
• Show record fields
• Modify records
• Delete records
• Count number of records

View Tests

• List, Detail, Create, Edit, Delete
• HTTP verbs (GET, POST)
• Test for failure

Example: AccountsViewTests

class AccountsViewTests(TestCase):

    def test_accounts_list_view()
    def test_accounts_detail_view()
    def test_accounts_add_view()
    def test_accounts_edit_view()
    def test_accounts_delete_view()

View Test Features

• Get all views for data records
• Post to update data (Add, Update, Delete)
• Check record changes
• Check for specific record fields
• Count records from HTML
• Check for proper redirect
• Check for URLs to views

Test User Accounts

• Test Login Form (good and bad)
• Test Signup Form
• setUp, tearDown

Django Test for Forms

class TestAccountsViews(TestCase):

    def test_home_view(self):
    def test_login_view(self):
    def test_logout_view(self):
    def test_signup_view(self):

BUILD

Linux Commands

• Automate your frequent actions
• Achieve your intent with one word
• Bury the details in scripts
• Do it the same every time

Django Operations

• serve -- Django runserver
• migrate -- Make migrations and apply them
• dt -- Run Django Tests

Git Operations

• s -- Git status
• pull -- Git pull
• push -- Git pull and Git push
• commit -- Git add and commit with comment

Directory Navigation

• l -- Directory listing
• d -- Change directory and list files
• u -- Go Up one directory
• b -- Start work for BACS 350

Automation

• Windows uses Powershell for automation (but also supports "bash")
• Commands are built into a file (load into Bash shell)
• .bashrc script
• Session start by loading the script

bash $ source .bashrc

User Account Module

• Django app - accounts
• URLs, templates, views
• Settings, Static media
• Add Accounts to Book Builder

Add Accounts to Book Builder

• Copy accounts folder
• Copy templates folder
• Set settings and urls