400 Bad Request While Using `django.test.client`

Question

I believe I am missing a fundamental setup.

I'm trying to test my API using Django's testing framework.

From the shell, I try:

from django.test import Client
c = Client()
r = c.get('/')

I get a 400 Bad Request, which is not the expected output.

Using a simple curl from the command line:

curl http://localhost

I get the expected output: {"detail":"Authentication credentials...

Am I missing something basic?

Answer 1

You can use the test client while DEBUG is False, you just need to add 'testserver' into your ALLOWED_HOSTS setting

Answer 2

It looks like:

DEBUG = True

is needed in the settings.py file for this to work.