How to Fake django.contrib.auth User value for specific user?

Question

I am writing a script and want to fake a User with an id (PK) of 2

var = Table(FKToUser=2)
var.save()

the problem is I'm getting :

"Table.FKToUser" must be a "User" instance

I've verified that the auth_user has a record with id=2

How can I fake this 2 value for testing purposes?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Assuming that Table is your model and FKToUser is a foreign key, there are two ways. The first is to set the FKToUser_id attribute to 2 and save the model. The other is to fetch the user and set the FKToUser attribute to the right user model instance.

This is also basically how a foreign key works. The actual column in the database is the FKToUser_id column, and it's a simple Integer foreign key to an id in another column. Django magic makes it possible to automatically retrieve the right instance by accessing FKToUser , and to set the right value by assigning a model instance to FKToUser .