import logging from contextlib import contextmanager from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission, User def post_data(data): """ Take a dictionary of test data (suitable for comparison to an instance) and return a dict suitable for POSTing. """ ret = {} for key, value in data.items(): if value is None: ret[key] = '' elif type(value) in (list, tuple): ret[key] = value else: ret[key] = str(value) return ret def create_test_user(username='testuser', permissions=None): """ Create a User with the given permissions. """ user = User.objects.create_user(username=username) if permissions is None: permissions = () for perm_name in permissions: app, codename = perm_name.split('.') perm = Permission.objects.get(content_type__app_label=app, codename=codename) user.user_permissions.add(perm) return user @contextmanager def disable_warnings(logger_name): """ Temporarily suppress expected warning messages to keep the test output clean. """ logger = logging.getLogger(logger_name) current_level = logger.level logger.setLevel(logging.ERROR) yield logger.setLevel(current_level)