unit testing gae with login setting in app.yaml

Question

I'm unit testing a google app engine app that uses the login setting in the app.yaml file. E.g.,

- url: /profile
  script: main.py
  login: required

I'm using testbed, nose, nose-gae, and webtest though not sure which of those matter.

My problem is that the login setting from app.yaml is ignored during testing. So if I don't have a logged in user and call

  response = self.app.get("/profile")

I get the requested page instead of being redirected to the login page.

Is there a way to test the login settings from app.yaml?

Answer 1

Not using a unit test. Your tests are calling the handler directly, which doesn't involve the dev_appserver, which is the component that enforces these restrictions. If you want to test these restrictions, you'll need an end-to-end test that invokes the dev_appserver and calls it over HTTP.

Answer 2

I realize this is almost 2 years later, but I had a similar problem and came upon a solution that's been developed lately.

There is now a "regression test framework" for devappserver2, which is the default development appserver as of 1.7.6. It sets up a server that will indeed use the app.yaml security settings and does this kind of integration testing